Three days after a 93-year-old Chareidi protester was struck by a vehicle during anti-draft demonstrations at Geha Junction, the 22-year-old driver involved in the incident has spoken publicly for the first time, saying she feared for her life as protesters surrounded her car.
Dima, a student from Kafr Qasim studying occupational therapy, said she was driving home from school when she became trapped in traffic caused by demonstrators blocking the roadway.
According to her account, protesters surrounded her vehicle, shouted insults including “terrorist,” “Arab,” and “Shiksa,” and refused to let her leave.
She said she took out pepper spray in an attempt to keep people away, but claimed the situation only escalated.
“I told them to move away or I would use pepper spray,” she said. “I got out of the car and stood next to it. When I took out the spray, someone punched me in the face. They pushed me into the door, and I was hit in the chest and shoulder. Only then did I spray.”
She said protesters then began rocking her vehicle and trying to attack her.
“I got back into the car and drove away. I didn’t see that there was a person beside the vehicle. He jumped onto the car. When I heard a bang, I stopped. I went to the police officers and told them I had heard a bang against my car.”
The driver said she only later realized someone had been struck. She voluntarily reported to police, was questioned under caution, and later released under restrictive conditions pending further investigation.
Expressing remorse, she apologized to the elderly victim and said she never intended to harm anyone.
The incident at Geha Junction was one of two vehicle-related incidents that occurred within an hour during Thursday’s Chareidi demonstrations protesting the arrest of yeshiva Bochrim.
Police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
5 Responses
Why are they allowed to drive? They shouldn’t even be allowed to be citizens. An extremely disproportionate number of these exact incidents, I think all, come from 1 demographic. And the evil state’s evil courts always let them go to kiss up to an antisemitic world, that relishes in Jewish blood, as always.
They either lie or claim mental problems. I think in France they let them murder Jewish grandmothers, not let excuse me the French state encourages them to, if they take one inhalation of marijuana that is that demographic’s get out of jail card in France. In the current abomination of leftist Israel it is the article above. Her murderous spree will not be granted justice of a good country, to the victim the Israeli state has no care, not this time not ever. While the world accuses always of the exact opposite of the truth.
Having seen what happens at these demonstrations, her version is unfortunately very credible…
an Israeli Yid
Anyone going about his lawful business, who finds his way being deliberately blocked by “protesters” who refuse to move, should be allowed by the law to drive through them and the “protesters” should be deemed to have consented to anything that happens to them. I believe this is now the law in Florida and it should be the law everywhere.
If there was an elderly man or a child standing in the middle of an active multi-lane highway, wouldn’t we would be mechalel Shabbos/Yom Kippur if that was necessary to get him off the highway?
The circumstances surrounding the incident seem quite clear. The thugs demonstrating made the woman extremely anxious for her welfare, fearing for her life, she drove away, not noticing an elderly gentleman who thought it was a great mitzvah to jump onto her car. Where were the police to beat the protesters away with truncheons?