In the years leading up to 2023, Palestinian activists inside Umm El Fahm, an entirely Arab municipality within the Green Line, noted that Israel's police force routinely left them under-resourced and unprotected against armed gang activity (which flourished due to a lack of employment opportunities and a lack of regulation in these areas). In response to violence within Arab communities, Israeli police began to expand their police presence—but rather than target members of the armed gangs who were killing young people without consequence, the police began to target people for petty crimes and for protesting.

In 2023, the state showed its hand by enacting a major police response to protests in the Palestinian city, arresting hundreds during the Unity Intifada. Mohammad Kiwan was a teenager who was riding in a car with his friends during this time when police opened fire at them, killing him. There was never a formal finding about police responsibility for the killing.

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