Wednesday, January 7, 2026 – The Palestinian Society in Israel
Killed
1. Mahmoud Jasser Abu Arar, 19, Ar'ara.
2. Kamel Hujrat, 55, Bi'r al-Maksur.
3. Yasser Hujrat, 53, Bi'r al-Maksur.
4. Khaled Ghadir, 62, Bi'r al-Maksur.
Protests
1. Bi'r al-Maksur - a protest march over the increased crime and police ineffectiveness following the triple murder in Shfar'am is dispersed by police. Confrontations ensued and several arrests were made.
Criminal Incidents
1. Iksal - Shooting incident, lightly to moderately injured person taken to the hospital.
2. Ar'ara (Negev) - a 19-year-old medical student who was studying in Georgia and visiting his family was shot dead when he opened his front door to a delivery man from a restaurant. It is suspected that the murder was part of an ongoing vendetta between families. The delivery man had no connection to the incident.
3. Shfar'am - Shooting incident. Several masked men opened fire on workers at a construction site. Three residents of Bi'r al-Maksur were killed.
Sources
Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, BBC, Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Genocide in Gaza, Haaretz, HRANA - Human Rights Activists News Agency, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Jordan Valley Activists, Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Matan Golan, Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, OCHA Lebanon, OCHA OPT, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Health Ministry, Quds News, Reuters, Rosa News, South Hebron Mountain Activists, Ta'ayush, Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), The Washington Post, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, West Bank Notifications, WHO, yNet, Zirat War
