‘The police don’t care’: gun violence engulfs Israel’s Arab community

Number of Palestinians killed rises year on year as firearms stolen from Israeli military proliferate on streets

There has been a break in the rain, and the sun is shining on the orange groves of Bir al-Maksur, a quiet Bedouin village near Nazareth in Israel's north.

Three-year-old Ammar would have loved splashing in the winter puddles outside the Hujarat family's home, his aunt said. But two days before, the little boy was shot and killed in a playground by a stray bullet fired during a car chase, and the grieving family is trying to make sense of the way his life ended.