A 33-year-old Palestinian bus driver from Kafr Qasim was physically assaulted and sprayed with pepper gas on his face on Tuesday morning by extremist Jewish young men on a road between Kafr Qasem and Petah Tikva.
According to eyewitnesses three Haredi youths tried to board the bus in Yarkon street in an illegal way as it was en route to Kafr Qasem after it left Petah Tikva and when the driver refused to let them on board they punched him in the face and sprayed him with pepper before fleeing the scene.
Soon later an ambulance crew rushed to the place and provided the injured driver with on-site medical assistance after one of the passengers aboard the bus phoned the authorities asking for help. The driver was transferred to hospital.
The police said it would investigate the incident.
