The Israel Police in the North confiscated around 200 illegal weapons and arrested over 200 suspects over the last few weeks in a major crackdown on crime in Arab communities, a police spokesperson announced on Friday.
Since January, police have been conducting operation “On Target” that encompasses a series of focused raids on known criminal bodies within the Arab community. The decision to launch the crackdown followed a major uptick in crime in the nation’s Arab sector
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Source: The Jerusalem Post
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