Overview
- Jerusalem District Court Judge Tamar Bar-Asher ordered three days of house arrest for driver Fakhri Khatib, and police said they will appeal the decision.
- Prosecutors shifted the case from an initial aggravated-murder designation to suspected negligent homicide and related driving offenses.
- Video from the scene shows a public bus striking protesters and dragging 14-year-old Yosef Eizental for meters before he was pronounced dead at Ohel Yehoshua Street.
- Police say the collision occurred outside the coordinated protest area at a junction kept open to traffic, described operationally as a critical 'fabric-of-life' route.
- The driver told investigators he was attacked and had called police for help, organizers disputed accounts of violence at the main rally, and officials are reviewing extensive footage and eyewitness testimony as political leaders urge restraint.