Suspected murder: man aged around 30 shot dead in the Lower Galilee

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A man aged around 30 was critically wounded by gunfire on Route 65 near the Nahal Tzalmon interchange. Paramedics and first responders from Magen David Adom provided him with medical treatment, but medical crews pronounced him dead at the scene. Police opened an investigation, and the background to the incident is a criminal one.

According to Israel Hayom, the man is Eyal Elhayev, a resident of Tuba-Zangariyye, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for murder. According to Kan News, this is the third murder within a few hours, after two young men were shot dead earlier tonight in Baqa al-Gharbiyye and Tamra.

According to Channel 14, a civilian who was at the scene began performing resuscitation on the victim under the guidance of the Magen David Adom dispatch center, but the crews were forced to pronounce him dead. According to Haaretz's tracking, since the beginning of the year, 234 people have been murdered in Israel.