The police have opened an investigation following a shooting incident in the Israeli-Arab city of Barta’a. Police identified the victim as a resident of the nearby Israeli-Arab town of Kafr Qara in his 30s.

“The injured man was lying unconscious, without a pulse and without breathing, with penetrating injuries to his body,” said Magen David Adom paramedic Yaska Ben-Nun. “His injury was critical and we were forced to declare him dead at the scene.”

On Tuesday night, a 50-year-old woman was shot and killed in Lod. The victim, found in her car outside her home was identified of Sahar Abu Hajjaj.