Police open investigation after Arab-Israeli woman killed in Lod

Police open investigation after Arab-Israeli woman killed in Lod

By the tally of the Arabam Initiatives, an NGO that tracks Arab-Israeli crime rates, Sahar is the 88th such victim in 2025, and the fifth woman.

Many police forces at the scene opened an investigation to examine the circumstances of the shooting, began trying to question witnesses and take down cameras. In addition, the background of her being a threatened woman who had previously refused to receive assistance was examined, including conversations and situation assessments they conducted in her case, including hearings in court.

The Abraham Initiatives organization reports that since the beginning of 2025, 88 Arabs have been killed in circumstances related to crime and violence. Of these, five were women, 87 were civilians and one was a resident. " "When we arrived at the scene of the incident, we noticed a 50-year-old woman with penetrating injuries to her body," said an MDA paramedic.

MDA teams arriving at the shooting scene in Lod were forced to declare the death of a woman in her 50s, who was murdered near her family home. The authorities knew about the case, and she refused to go to a shelter for battered women | 11 women have been murdered since the beginning of 2025