Three Charged in Nazareth Killing Over Mistaken Identity in Crime Feud

Three members of the Hariri crime organization, including an 18-year-old, have been charged with the murder of 21-year-old Basel Fraoni in November last year at a car wash in Nazareth. Authorities allege the suspects mistakenly identified Fraoni as the intended target, the business owner, because he was holding a washing hose. After the shooting, the suspects fled by car to Umm al-Fahm, their place of origin. Police found one of the weapons used in the murder, a ski mask, and a fake license plate near the crime scene. Following the arrest of the 18-year-old, two additional suspects aged 21 and 33 from northern Israel were detained; both were already imprisoned for the earlier murder of 15-year-old Azmi Graib earlier this year.

In separate incidents overnight in northern Israel, two men were fatally shot. A young man was killed on Haifa’s Haganah Boulevard, with two others seriously wounded and taken to Rambam Hospital. Hours later, a man around 30 years old was shot dead in Reineh. The commander of the Tel Aviv district described the surge in violence in the Arab sector as a "national emergency," noting a sharp rise in car bombings breaking records.