A video circulating on social media shows a female driver exiting her vehicle and advancing with a sharp object toward Haredi protesters blocking Highway 6, before she was disarmed and beaten by the crowd, according to reports. The incident is the latest violent confrontation during a day of protests over the arrest of military draft evaders.
A new social-media clip, published shortly after 19:14 Jerusalem, captures a violent escalation on Highway 6 during today's Haredi protest wave. In the footage, a female driver steps out of her car and approaches demonstrators holding what appears to be a metal or sharp object. Protesters then wrest the item from her hand and strike her repeatedly, according to reports citing the video.
The incident follows a similar confrontation on the same highway roughly 45 minutes earlier, in which a female driver wielded a metal bar against protesters and was herself attacked, as The Zioneer reported at 18:34. That earlier event — also captured on video and published by Yedioth Ahronoth — shows the same pattern of civilian-on-protester violence.
The broader protest, sparked by the arrest of Haredi draft evaders at a military prison earlier in the day, has seen multiple clashes across Israeli highways. At 18:22, footage showed a grenade thrown at protesters on Highway 4, and at 19:08 a suspected deliberate hit-and-run was documented at the Geha Interchange. Police deployed a water cannon and stun grenades to reopen Highway 6, and organizers later called on participants to disperse. No injuries have been officially reported from the most recent Highway 6 confrontation; details on the driver's condition remain unconfirmed.
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