A 30-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel was killed by a car explosion in a street in Lod on Wednesday afternoon, in what appears to be another crime-related assassination, while another Palestinian was shot dead in the city of Tamra in the early hours of the morning. 

Medical staff provided first aid to the victim from Lod at the scene, and quickly transferred him to Assaf Harofeh Hospital, southeast of Tel Aviv, but the doctors declared his death soon afterwards.

The police opened a file to investigate the circumstances of the crime, but no arrests or other information related to the explosion were reported.

In the city of Tamra, 33-year-old Ashraf Saber Akkawi was shot dead and others were wounded in a crime-related shooting. 

The killings take the death toll in the Arab community to 124 for the year, in comparison to 109 people last year, and 111 in 2021.

The Arab community in Israel has complained that police have failed to combat criminal organizations, and that the security services have colluded with some of them.