The ongoing wave of homicides has claimed the lives of another five Palestinian citizens of Israel in the last 24 hours.

A father and son, 61-year-old Omar Khalidi and 35-year-old Muhammad Khalidi, were shot dead in the northern city of Shefa 'Amr, following on the heels of three deaths on the eve of Eid al-Adha on Tuesday evening.

In a separate incident, a gang of criminals tried to assassinate the two sons of the head of the local council in

Tuba-Zangariyye. The bullets hit the car they were travelling in. No immediate injuries were reported.

Since the beginning of this year, the death toll from murders in the Arab community has reached 104, including six women and two children, according to the news site Arab48.

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. Five others were injured in these incidents, including one minor.