A 93-year-old man was run over today at a protest at the Geha Junction, according to Israeli activist Yoeli Barim. The activist posted a tally of casualties during ongoing demonstrations against the draft, citing four incidents since January including the death of two minors.
The new development arrived at 19:23 Jerusalem: activist Yoeli Barim's public tally classifies the 93-year-old pedestrian hit near the Geha Interchange as a deliberate ramming during a Haredi protest against military draft legislation, the fourth such incident since January. Barim stated that a 93-year-old was run over by a bus at the junction. The event was first reported at 19:00 Jerusalem as a traffic accident, when Magen David Adom evacuated a 93-year-old male with a head injury to Beilinson Hospital; N12 described that initial report as a traffic accident.
At 18:59 Jerusalem, The Zioneer reported a suspected ramming at the Ganot Junction that left a 21-year-old moderately wounded, followed at 19:19 Jerusalem by a second suspected ramming in Jerusalem that wounded a 93-year-old and a 21-year-old. Both were described as moderate, amid ongoing Haredi protests. Barim's tally now lists two minors killed in January — Yosef Eizental (14) and Naftali Zvi Kramer (18) — and a serious injury to a teenager last week at Ganot Junction, alongside today's Geha incident.
As The Zioneer reported at 19:19 Jerusalem, the earlier ramming incidents occurred against the backdrop of Haredi protests against the arrest of draft evaders. The desk has tracked at least three separate junction incidents in the span of minutes on Wednesday evening.
The 93-year-old's own condition remains unverified by emergency services in an official capacity, and the tally's claim that today's Geha incident is a deliberate ramming has not been independently confirmed by Magen David Adom or police. It is also not yet clear whether today's victim is the same 93-year-old who was moderately wounded in the Jerusalem incident reported at 19:19.
2 developments
- StrongMDA corrects: pedestrian injured at Geha protest is 93, condition moderate
- DevelopingSuspected second ramming in Jerusalem and Petah Tikva wounds two, including 93-year-old
- DevelopingPentagon's chemical alarm near Israel determined to be false—MDA corrects ramming victim's age to 93
- StrongDriver suspected in Geha hit-and-run released; says she feared lynching
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