Gunfire in Lod narrowly misses a woman lying in bed, prompting National Security Minister to issue ultimatum to police.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Israel Police took action in Lod overnight Thursday after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir told a station commander at 2AM that he would come to the city himself if quiet was not restored, after fielding several panicked messages from Jewish residents who had been
hearing gunfire near their homes for an hour, Israel National News reported Thursday.
One woman, Ofra Lax, had an even more frightening experience, as she told the minister that a bullet had just missed her.
He wrote back to the residents that he had demanded that forces be sent to the scene and that “if the shooting doesn’t calm down within the next few minutes, I intend to come to the city to inspect the situation from in the field and demand intensive action to fight the dangerous illegal weapons.”
The report said that a large force of officers arrived very shortly thereafter, made several arrests, and the gunfire ceased. The residents were very thankful, telling INN that Ben-Gvir has been very attentive to the ongoing issue of Arab violence in their mixed city since he entered his office.
“He listened to our distress and is doing everything he can to fix it. We have to restore the security in Lod,” they stressed.
Lod 的枪声险些击中一名躺在床上的妇女，促使国家安全部长向警方发出最后通牒。 世界以色列新闻 以色列警方于星期四连夜在洛德采取行动，此前国家安全部长伊塔马尔·本格维尔在凌晨 2 点告诉一名站长，如果没有恢复平静，他将亲自前往该市，此前收到了来自犹太居民的几条惊慌失措的信息，他们一直在以色列国家新闻</em> 星期四报道，他们在家附近听到了一个小时的枪声。 位名叫 Ofra Lax 的女士有更可怕的经历，她告诉部长，一颗子弹刚刚击中了她。 他回信给居民说，他已要求派出部队到现场，“如果枪击事件在接下来的几分钟内没有平息，我打算从实地并要求采取密集行动打击危险的非法武器。” 报道说，大批警察很快赶到，逮捕了数人，枪声也停止了。居民们非常感激，他们告诉;自从进入他的办公室以来，一直非常关注他们混居城市中持续存在的阿拉伯暴力问题。 他倾听了我们的苦恼，并竭尽所能解决问题。我们必须恢复 Lod 的安全，”他们强调
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Lax, a journalist for INN’s parallel newspaper, Besheva, expressed both gratitude for her near-miss and incredulity about the perilous situation that is the norm in her town.
“A great miracle happened to me tonight,” she wrote after the incident. “I decided to go to bed early. 10:00 p.m. in bed. The city is indeed shaking from gunshots, but I try to ignore it.”
Suddenly she felt a small shower of wood, she wrote, so she called her husband in, and they found the bullet, which had hit her nightstand, missing her by mere inches.
“How does this happen in a major city in Israel? How does it make sense that they shoot here every night? And the truth? Not only here. I’m holding my breath, waiting for something to change,” she added.
Ben-Gvir has visited the city several times since the government was formed and has firmly backed the residents’ call to restore governability in Lod, which has been a constant cry since violent Arab rioting took place there during Operation Guardian of the Walls in May 2021.
His answer is his country-wide plan to hire more than 3,200 police officers, raise salaries significantly to make the job more attractive, and establish a National Guard to augment the force in fighting crime as well as terrorism.
BEN-GVIR 参观圣殿山：“我们是耶路撒冷和以色列的所有者” 他在 5 月份表示，所有这一切的预算应该“在未来几个月内”出台。 Lod 市长 Yair Revivo 想要一个更快的解决方案，他在周四表示，“如果没有立即通过处理阿拉伯犯罪的 Shin Bet 法，我将呼吁推翻政府。” 利用以色列内部安全机构及其所有情报和监视方法来防止恐怖袭击，以打击阿拉伯地区犯罪率上升的想法是一个有争议的想法。它由上届政府于 2021 年首次提出
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The budget for all this, he said in May, should come “in the next few months.”
Lod Mayor Yair Revivo wants a faster solution, saying Thursday, “If the Shin Bet law to deal with Arab crime is not passed immediately, I will call for the toppling of the government.”
The idea to use Israel’s internal security agency with all its intelligence and surveillance methods that are applied to prevent terrorist attacks in order to fight the upsurge in crime in the Arab sector, is a controversial one. It was first raised in 2021 by the previous government.