About half of the criminal prisoners in Israel are from the Arab sector while they constitute only 20% of the population. Photo by TPS on 5 February, 2014
By: Aryeh Savir
About half of the criminal prisoners in Israel are from the Arab sector while they constitute only 20% of the population, according to the Knesset’s Research and Information Center.
The Research and Information Center compiled a report that showed that out of 5,449 criminal prisoners incarcerated in Israel, 2,557 are Arabs and constitute 47% of the prisoners in this category.
The report was presented last month during a discussion by the Knesset’s special committee for the eradication of crime in the Arab society.
Since the beginning of 2021, within 25 days, 11 people have been murdered in Arab localities. Over 100 Arabs were murdered in Israel throughout 2020.
The police have launched several operations in Arab localities to stem the ongoing wave of violence and crimes within the Arab sector.
Approximately 85% of the indictments filed in Israel in 2020 for shooting, illegal possession of weapons, trafficking, and illegal use of weapons have been filed against suspects from the Arab society.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Sunday evening with Arab sector local council heads to discuss his proposal to defeat violence and crime in Arab society.
“It cannot be that in our state people fear to walk the streets. This embitters your lives. I am certain that there are threats against you, against all of you,” Netanyahu told them.
“We will stop gangs of criminals that undermine the communities and afterwards trickle, of course, to the rest of the population. We will stop this,” he vowed.
The plan has been in formulation for several months.
In a related development, the Palestinian Authority (PA) held a ceremony Sunday during which participants planted some 2,000 olive trees on Israeli state land, in IDF Training Ground 203 near Rosh HaAyin, in close proximity to the security barrier in the center of the country.
The event was filmed, photographed, and publicized by the Fatah-affiliated Radio Zeituna and on social media.
Armed PA police officers were among those in attendance and were filmed as they entered the IDF firing zone, despite the fact that they are prohibited from entering Area C, the areas of Judea and Samaria under full Israeli jurisdiction, as per the 1994 Oslo Accords.
The Regavim Movement, which reported on the incident, stated Monday that this event is “one element of a large-scale project that has taken shape over the past several years,” in which the PA has planted millions of trees as a means of illegally seizing control of thousands of dunams in Area C.
Regavim explained that the PA’s “agricultural annexation” focuses on land near roadways, surrounding Israeli communities, as well as state land, particularly in locations that are of high strategic and political importance.
“The Palestinian Authority has joined the Tu B’Shvat celebrations with well-planned ‘agricultural conquest’ projects – and thus far, the State of Israel is fast asleep,” said a spokesperson for Regavim.
(TPS)
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