Four Israeli-Arabs were murdered amid a 24-hour surge of Arab sector violence on Monday and Tuesday while a Jewish man was killed in a separate attack that police believe was related to organized crime.
Paramedics in Lod found 32-year-old Abdallah Ali al-Wahwah with gunshot wounds on Tuesday. He was evacuated for hospitalization but declared dead on arrival.
Also on Tuesday, Refaat al-Bahri, a 56-year-old businessman was killed on Tuesday morning when a bomb blew up as he was opening up his supermarket in the Arab village of Taybeh. Two of his employees were injured in the blast.
On Monday, also in Lod, a man identified as Ayoub al-Touri was killed in a shooting. Police said the murder was related to a dispute between two families.