The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold.

Clashes between government troops and Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria’s Aleppo killed at least nine people today, mostly civilians, in one of the worst flare-ups between the sides in months.

The implementation of a March deal to merge the Kurds’ semi-autonomous administration and military into Syria’s new Islamist government has largely stalled.

Tensions have occasionally erupted into clashes, particularly in Aleppo, which has two Kurdish-majority neighborhoods.

Both sides traded blame over who started today’s fighting, which continued into the night and is among the deadliest violence between the government and Kurdish forces since the toppling of Bashar al-Assad more than a year ago. It also adds to concerns about progress on the integration deal.

Police say the bus driver who ran over Haredi demonstrators in Jerusalem this evening, killing one, has said that prior to the incident he was attacked by rioters during the rowdy protest.

According to Channel 13 news and Walla, the driver had called police prior to say he was in danger.

The Haredi teen run over and killed this evening by a bus in Jerusalem during a demonstration against enlistment is identified as Yosef Eisenthal, 14.

Eisenthal was a resident of Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood.

The driver of the bus has been arrested and taken for questioning.

Three other young Haredi demonstrators were lightly injured in the incident.

President Isaac Herzog says it is a “deeply sad and painful evening” after a young Haredi was run over by a bus and killed during a demonstration.

“Violence crosses a red line in the gravest and most dangerous sense,” Herzog writes on X. “This painful evening must be a wake-up call for all of us… Now is the time to show responsibility, lower the flames, and do everything possible to prevent the next disaster before it is too late.”

He says he trusts police to conduct “a swift and thorough investigation in order to quickly bring those responsible to justice and draw conclusions.”

Young Haredi demonstrators in Jerusalem continue to block the corner of Shamgar and Yirmiyahu streets, near where a bus ran over protesters, as a bonfire started on........

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