How a quiet Bedouin village in Israel's south turned into Ben-Gvir's supremacist playground
'What we saw in Gaza and the West Bank has reached us, too,' says a relative of Mohammed al-Sana, who was fatally shot by Israel Police officers in Tarabin. Residents say the killing shattered hopes in the village, amid arrests of children and what they describe as collective punishment. 'It proved to me that we don't live in a democratic country'
Israeli police in Tarabin, last week. Credit: Eliahu Hershkovitz
'What we saw in Gaza and the West Bank has reached us, too,' says a relative of Mohammed al-Sana, who was fatally shot by Israel Police officers in Tarabin. Residents say the killing shattered hopes in the village, amid arrests of children and what they describe as collective punishment. 'It proved to me that we don't live in a democratic country'
11:20 PM • January 07 2026 IST
After a week of raids, riots, arrests and protests sweeping the Bedouin community in Israel, the southern village of Tarabin was quiet Sunday, hours after the police shot dead Mohammed Hussein Tarabin al-Sana, 35. An officer at the entrance to the village announced that the police were engaging in "operational activity."
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