Two people were wounded — one passerby and one protester — in what journalist Chaim Cohen described as a deliberate ramming incident at Geha Junction, according to a Telegram report. The passerby suffered moderate-to-serious injuries; the protester was also injured. Police and emergency services are at the scene.
At approximately 18:44 Jerusalem time, a vehicle rammed into protesters at Geha Junction during the ongoing Haredi draft demonstrations. Initial reports described one seriously wounded individual; by the same time, The Zioneer reported a second victim in moderate condition. Now, journalist Chaim Cohen has described the incident as a deliberate ramming on Telegram, and added that among the two wounded is a passerby with moderate-to-serious injuries — expanding the scope of casualties beyond the protesters alone. Police and emergency services remain at the scene.
The thread unfolded rapidly around 18:44 Jerusalem: first reports indicated one person seriously wounded; within the same minute, follow-up notes cited a second moderately wounded victim. The condition of the first victim was then consolidated as serious across subsequent versions. At 18:52 Jerusalem, Cohen's Telegram post — classified as a background item in The Zioneer's records — characterized the event as a deliberate hit-and-run, though no official confirmation from police or emergency services had been published at that stage. The current update integrates Cohen's accounting of a second injured passerby and his framing of the event as intentional.
These events take place against a backdrop of widespread Haredi draft protests that have escalated in recent days, including confrontations at Highway 6 (The Zioneer, 18:34 Jerusalem), a police-reported incident of attackers targeting public infrastructure in Jerusalem (The Zioneer, June 8, 22:01 Jerusalem), and reports of rioters breaking into a Beit Shemesh police station (The Zioneer, June 6, 21:14 Jerusalem). The ramming at Geha Junction is the latest in a series of protest-related incidents across central Israel.
As of 18:58 Jerusalem, the driver's identity and motives remain unconfirmed by law enforcement, and no official statement from police or emergency services has addressed the classification of the ramming as deliberate. The condition of the passerby — reported by a single journalist as moderate-to-serious — has not been independently corroborated by medical authorities.
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