MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash-Ta'al) met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday and presented a report on the surge in organized crime and violence in Arab Israeli communities. Odeh told Guterres the state has the tools to dismantle the criminal organizations but is abandoning Arab society while hundreds of citizens pay with their lives.
MK Ayman Odeh met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York on Thursday, presenting a report on the escalating crime and violence in Arab Israeli communities. According to N12, Odeh told Guterres: "The state has all the tools to eradicate the crime organizations, but it is abandoning our society while hundreds of citizens pay with their lives." The meeting follows a sustained wave of lethal violence in Arab communities that has pushed the 2026 death toll past 142, as The Zioneer has previously reported. Odeh's diplomatic push at the UN comes amid growing domestic pressure on the government and police to curb organized crime, and after several Arab-Israeli lawmakers and officials have publicly criticized the police response. Details of the report were not immediately released, and Odeh's office has not yet provided further comment.
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