A source in the Haredi community told N12 on Wednesday that transferring the detained Soleberg protesters to a military prison would erase all remaining red lines, vowing protests in unprecedented locations. The threat deepens a standoff between police and ultra-Orthodox demonstrators near Abu Kabir.
The threat comes after hours of unrest in which police detained 19 Haredi protesters near the Abu Kabir forensic institute compound. As The Zioneer reported minutes earlier, a prominent commentator had warned that the standoff could end in bloodshed if police did not disengage. The unnamed Haredi source interviewed by N12 now raises the escalation ceiling explicitly: military detention of the Soleberg detainees, the source says, would trigger a new phase of defiance. The protesters are demonstrating against what they view as state coercion in drafting yeshiva students, a fault line that has roiled Israeli politics for months.
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