A 19-year-old woman who shunned a traditional Bedouin lifestyle and opted to work at a local business, study and wear western clothes has been shot dead close to her home.
Dima Bushnak had wanted to support her family while she studied and did not want to follow the usual path for women in her village which mainly involved agricultural work with little interaction with men.
On Sunday just before midnight, CCTV footage showed Dima desperately trying to escape her killer as she reverses her car at speed.
But in her terror, she crashes the vehicle into wall and man with a handgun runs towards her.
As the gunman gets to the driver's window he fires once and runs away before turning back to fire a second shot into Dima.
Moments later a second car's headlights are seen fleeing the shooting, close to the Bedouin village of Sallama, in Galilee, northern Israel.
Dima was rushed to hospital in critical condition where she was later pronounced dead.
She and her family had previously received death threats and her over her choice of lifestyle, family members told local media.
Her mother's car had been set on fire but police had been unable to find out who had done it.
One unnamed family member told local media: "Just because Dima wanted to get ahead in life, there are some people that decided to threaten her life and in the end killed her."
The family member added: "They did not want her to work or study."
Police did not say if there were any suspects or what they believe might have been the motive.
Dima's murder has become the 78th violent killing in the Arab community this year, a significant increase from the 30 cases reported at this time last year, as reported by the Abraham Initiatives anti-violence watchdog.
Among the victims, she is the sixth Arab female to be killed and the fifteenth woman killed in Israel in 2023.
