LOD, Wednesday, July 1, 2026 (WAFA) – A young Palestinian man, identified as Sami Ahmed Ja‘sous, in his twenties, was killed on Wednesday after being shot by Israeli police in the city of Lod inside the territories of 1948.

This marks the sixth person killed by police in the city since the beginning of the year.

The killing comes amid increasing reports of excessive force by Israeli police in Arab towns inside the 1948 territories, with repeated calls for transparent and independent investigations into such incidents.

Arab communities inside Israel have also witnessed a rise in violence and homicide cases in recent years, including shootings and stabbings. Earlier on Wednesday, two separate incidents in Basma and Shfaram left two more young men dead, bringing the total number of killings since the beginning of the year to 139.

K.T