A Haredi protest convoy against the arrest of draft evaders is moving on Highway 1, with drivers told to turn back home in the coming minutes, i24NEWS reports. A pregnant woman was moderately injured in a crash, and emergency responders took 25 minutes to arrive, according to the report. Altercations broke out between protesters and residents in Arad.
A Haredi protest convoy against the arrest of draft evaders is currently moving on Highway 1. Drivers are being told to turn back home in the coming minutes, according to i24NEWS. The update comes just minutes after an earlier bulletin (Wed 19:14 Jerusalem) reported a pregnant woman was seriously injured in a crash on the same highway amid the convoy, with emergency responders taking 25 minutes to arrive. Additional altercations have now been reported in Arad between protesters and residents, per the same source.
The thread began at Wed 18:44 Jerusalem with initial reports — since corrected — of a pregnant woman seriously injured in a crash on Road 6. Successive versions corrected the location to Highway 1 and added a second moderate injury at Ganot junction. Police attributed the crash to the convoy's slow speed; rescue response time (25 minutes) has been consistent across all versions. By Wed 18:21 Jerusalem, police had confirmed 1,000–1,200 vehicles participating in convoys nationwide, as The Zioneer reported.
The protests are part of a broader wave of demonstrations that have spread to multiple cities this week following the arrest of Haredi draft evaders, as The Zioneer reported on Thu Jun 11. Earlier clashes between protesters and drivers on Highway 4 and Highway 6 were covered by the desk at Wed 17:33 and Wed/Thu Jun 11 timelines.
It remains unclear whether the pregnant woman's condition has changed from the 'seriously injured' report in the earlier bulletin, or whether the 25-minute response time has been confirmed by an official source beyond the initial i24NEWS report.
6 developments
- StrongNew video shows female driver attacked after wielding weapon at protesters on Highway 6
- StrongMDA corrects: pedestrian injured at Geha protest is 93, condition moderate
- DevelopingChaim Cohen reports deliberate hit-and-run in apparent security incident
- DevelopingVideo shows shoving, punching in clashes between Haredi protesters and drivers
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