What’s Killing Israel’s Arabs?
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Israel’s Arab population is in the grip of a violent and deadly crime wave. Since the start of the year, scores of Arab citizens have lost their lives and increasingly, even women and children are victims of drive-by killings, point-blank shootings and escalating gang warfare. Arabs account for only around one in five of all Israelis, yet they are now the majority of the country’s murder victims. Many say the problem of organised crime has grown out of control within their communities; others argue that the police do little to combat it. Some claim that Israel’s Jewish majority simply does not care. With a new coalition government now in office, which includes an Arab party, the BBC’s Yolande Knell meets victims’ families and those in authority to find out what is going on, and what hope there is for an end to the carnage.
Producers: Quique Kierszenbaum in Israel and Michael Gallagher in London Editor: Bridget Harney
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| 0:00.0 | BBC World Service, Welcome to assignment. |
| 0:03.0 | Suha Mansour was one of Israel. Welcome to assignment. |
| 0:18.0 | Suhmanseur was one of Israel's nearly 2 million Arab citizens and a young woman with everything to live for. |
| 0:21.0 | Here she's enjoying herself at a friend's birthday party. A beautician running |
| 0:29.4 | her own business, Suha had only recently celebrated her own 38th birthday. |
| 0:35.0 | Her sister, Suhere showed me a video of the happy occasion. |
| 0:42.0 | Chichicha! showed me a video of the happy occasion. |
| 0:43.0 | In Corona can fish |
| 0:45.0 | she mappah and fish she'll be shara. |
| 0:48.0 | Because of Corona there was no party |
| 0:50.0 | so you're in the street giving her her birthday cake. But just weeks after this, tragedy struck. |
| 0:57.0 | A gunman shot Suhahad dead in her own beauty salon, |
| 1:01.0 | in cold blood and at point blank range. |
| 1:05.0 | How can I describe her to her? |
| 1:11.0 | How can I describe Sue out of people? |
| 1:14.0 | She was the most beautiful person in the world. |
| 1:16.6 | No gathering was complete without her. |
| 1:19.4 | Not even a cup of coffee. |
| 1:20.4 | I had a fortune of coffee. deadly crime wave that's devastating Israel's Arab community. |
| 1:36.0 | Since the start of the year, scores of Israeli Arabs or Palestinian citizens of Israel, as many |
| 1:41.7 | prefer to be called, have lost their lives at the hands of other Arabs. |
| 1:47.0 | And increasingly criminals are targeting women and even children. |
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