Police arrested seven residents of the northern Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm Tuesday evening on suspicion of involvement in extortion, tried homicide, weapons trafficking, gunfire, racketeering and a number of other different offenses.
The seven are thought-about domit figures in the town’s legal scene.
They have been to be introduced earlier than the Haifa Magistrate’s Court Wednesday for a remand extension listening to, police stated.
Umm al-Fahm, 20 kilometers (12 miles) northwest of Jenin and 40 kilometers (24 miles) south of Haifa, is one of the most important Arab cities in Israel.
The metropolis has suffered a wave of violent incidents.
In April a man and his 13-year-old nephew have been shot useless at a party forward of a marriage ceremony. That identical month Sheikh Mohammad Sa’adeh, 45, was fatally shot as he he left the town’s al-Tawhid Mosque.
A relative of Sa’adeh was murdered a 12 months in the past and a brother of that victim was significantly injured in one other current capturing.
In a separate incident, a man was shot and killed in Umm al-Fahm in September.
Flooded with unlawful weapons, some Arab-Israeli cities have develop into hotbeds of crime, in a development that Arab-Israeli lawmakers say the Israel Police is reluctant to fight.