Under police surveillance, yet they carried out an execution: Indictment against three who set out for blood revenge

The Haifa District Attorney's Office filed a severe indictment today (Monday) at the city's District Court against three residents of the North and the Negev: Kerem Jabarin, 42, from Musheirifa, Said al-Sayed, 23, from the al-Sayed tribe in the Negev, and a 17-year-old minor from Umm al-Fahm.

The three are charged with premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances of Muhammad Mahamid, alongside weapons offenses, intentional aggravated assault, arson, destruction of evidence, and obstruction of justice. Simultaneously with the filing of the indictment, the prosecution requested their detention until the end of proceedings, revealing an extensive and exceptional evidentiary infrastructure that includes wiretaps documenting the planning and execution in real-time, alongside unequivocal forensic and technological evidence.

It turns out that the police were tracking the defendants and feared their intention to avenge the murder of Jabarin's wife, but despite this, they failed to prevent the murder. This fact emerges from the plethora of evidence presented today to the court; it concerns the results of a police wiretap that bugged what was happening in the Hyundai Ioniq getaway car.

The recordings reveal how Jabarin planned to avenge the death of his wife, Nour, who was murdered in August 2025, after Muhammad Mahamid's brother was put on trial for involvement in the murder. Kerem Jabarin himself was the target of the killers and was seriously wounded in the incident in which his wife was killed. Already in the two days preceding the murder, Jabarin was heard explaining the motive to the minor and saying: "This is my wife's blood, I live here and everyone is passing the buck," while pressing to put the plot into action.

In additional recordings, the defendants were documented inquiring about ammunition for the Kalashnikov rifle, going out for a preliminary field reconnaissance, and even installing black windows on the vehicle. On the night before the liquidation, Jabarin and al-Sayed were documented removing license plates from two trucks in Kafr Qara in order to mount them on the execution vehicle - a move that was simultaneously backed by security camera footage.

The wiretap continued to operate even during the morning moments of the murder itself, on July 5, 2026. While Jabarin and al-Sayed waited in ambush near the "Abu Nadim" bakery in Umm al-Fahm while armed with a Kalashnikov, the minor waited in the getaway car on a nearby street and was documented reporting to them in a whisper on the phone: "I'm ready, I turned off the lights and am standing on the right side, come quickly."

Immediately after the shooting was carried out at the bakery, in which Mahamid was shot in his back at least nine times from close range and the driver of the commercial vehicle who met him was wounded in his leg, Jabarin and al-Sayed joined the minor who was waiting in the getaway car. The secret recordings from inside the getaway car documented the defendants reenacting the liquidation with cold blood. One of the defendants was heard offering to pour cola for Jabarin and saying "Khalas, let the woman rest in her grave," while another defendant demonstrated how the shooting was carried out into the deceased's back while raising his hands, and suggested driving south to "eat mansaf."

Beyond the dramatic recordings, the detention request reveals that the police have a strong chain of evidence that connects all the parts. On cola cans and disposable cups found in the getaway car, DNA profiles matching Jabarin and al-Sayed were found, alongside fingerprints of all three defendants on the car windows.

In addition, although the defendants torched the execution vehicle along with the weapon in an open area near Ar'ara, forensic investigators located the Kalashnikov rifle inside the burnt skeleton. In the opinion of the weapons laboratory, it was determined unequivocally that this is the tool from which the nine casings collected at the murder scene were fired. It was also learned that the murder scene was washed in order to hide evidence and make it difficult to solve the murder.

The trio, who maintained their right to silence throughout their interrogations, were arrested at the end of a manhunt - Jabarin in a hideout apartment in Haifa, and his two partners at a gas station on Highway 6 while they were fleeing south. Simultaneously, it was revealed that the defendants even managed to send the getaway car for repainting at a garage in Barta'a with the goal of hiding evidence, but the vast information collected led to the formulation of the severe indictment.