Three Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed in separate incidents on Tuesday, the first night of Eid al-Adha, as crime-related violence continues to soar unchecked in the community.

In the northern city of Shefa 'Amr, Amir Sawaed was killed in a shooting; In Kafr Qanna, Ashraf Nassar was killed; and in Rahat in the Negev, another young man, Hassan Abu Latif, was killed.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, these incidents took place in approximately one hour timeframe.

During that period, several shooting crimes took place in several areas, including Taibeh, Iksal, Kafr Qara, and Baqqa Al-Gharbiya, leaving several injuries, some of them serious.