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| Hostage protester, 73, attacked, car drives into crowd at Tel Aviv demonstration |
| 2025-07-22 |
”I couldn’t help it, y’r honor. His face cried to the Heavens for punching.” [IsraelTimes] Bnei Brak resident arrested for suspected attack on elderly man, demonstrators say no police presence amid repeated instances of violence at protest outside military HQA 74-year-old protester was attacked by a motorcyclist Monday during a demonstration calling for a hostage deal, outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv. Shortly afterwards, a car appeared to drive into a crowd of protesters, lightly injuring several people, according to the Haaretz news site. The elderly demonstrator, who was transferred to Ichilov Hospital, had been blocking Begin Road alongside other protesters outside the military complex, as participants read aloud the names of the hostages still held by terror groups in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip. According to Hebrew reports, the demonstrator was repeatedly punched by the assailant, who drove off after the beating. The maimed protester told Haaretz that he had been walking with signs between the cars on the road when the man came up to him on his cycle of violence. "I stopped him, he told me to move, I said I wouldn’t move, he got off the scooter. I told him not to touch me. He started punching me — I didn’t understand what was happening," he recounted to the daily. "What was happening" is you were an asshole and faced consequences Police said in a statement that one suspect, a 21-year-old resident of the overwhelmingly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, has been arrested and taken for questioning. Some five minutes after the motorcyclist’s assault, protesters told Haaretz, another driver tied to ram his car into them. The protesters have clearly worn out their welcome. The next election should be interesting over there. Some twenty seconds of the incident were captured on camera by the daily’s photographer, showing the car moving toward the protesters, and protesters banging on its windows and making noise around it.“A car continued to drive into us, tried to run us over. We walked back, and it continued to drive, until we managed to bring the police here,” one demonstrator, Tina Bekenstein, told the newspaper. There were no reports of serious injuries. The incidents took place amid an unusual absence of police, Haaretz reported, adding that there has been a gradual limiting of police presence in recent weeks, amid demands that the demonstrators obtain a permit before gathering. Officers reportedly arrived after the attack on the motorcyclist. After the two incidents, police declared that the protest was illegal, and called on demonstrators to stop blocking the road. MK Naama Lazimi, of the left-wing The Democrats party, …the latest reincarnation of the labour socialists, if I recall correctly, named after their American supporters… said in a statement that she reached out to the police a month ago saying protesters’ safety was being threatened.“I warned against a trend of escalating violence against protesters, and I emphasized that the absence of police presence harms the physical security of the participants [in the protests],” she said at the time, in a letter to police chief Daniel Levy, according to the statement. Levy has not responded to her letter, she said. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement that it “totally condemns the attack on protesters for the hostages in Tel Aviv.” It was not immediately clear which of the incidents the forum was responding to. “We want to send our big thanks, from the bottom of our hearts, to all the activists for the hostages, and we remind them, and everyone, that an overwhelming majority of the nation stands with them, and their holy work,” the statement said. “No act of violence by a few people will make us forget the simple truth — the nation is with the hostages,” it said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 ^IMO, Israelis are getting just a little bit tired of hostages and their families. Especially, since some former hostages got celebrity delusion. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-07-22 11:28 |
| #2 Exactly so on both counts, Grom. But it will take a while before they run through the vast funds gifted them by the Biden Politburo, and have to respond to market realities. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-07-22 11:11 |
| #1 she reached out to the police a month ago saying protesters’ safety was being threatened Illegal demonstration - blocking one of the city's main junctions, doesn't merit police protection. The police should've been there smashing your heads. the nation is with the hostages The message you sending to all of Israel's enemies is that hostage taking works. Basically, you're killing them. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-07-22 06:08 |