NBC News crew attacked by ‘Israeli’ settlers in West Bank
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Masked ‘Israeli’ settlers attacked and injured a Palestinian woman and members of an NBC News team reporting in the West Bank on Saturday.
Four members of an NBC team were interviewing a Palestinian woman, Aida Ahmed Abdullah, and her family in the town of Jalud, near Nablus, when the assault took place.
Abdullah said settlers had driven her family from their home, and the crew was walking down a hill toward the house.
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A gray car with ‘Israeli’ license plates then reversed up the hill toward them, video of the incident shows.
A masked man in a blue tracksuit, holding a stick, leaned out of the rear passenger window as the vehicle approached.
When it stopped, at least four men in dark clothes with covered faces leapt out, striking Abdullah and the journalists with sticks and throwing rocks.
“They jumped out, beat us, then jumped back in the car,” said NBC News international correspondent Matt Bradley, who was hit twice in the arm and later treated at a nearby clinic.
Abdullah, 51, was left on the ground and taken for medical care by the Red Crescent.
Her injuries were not life-threatening, according to an ‘Israeli’ military and Border Police statement.
Her husband, Mahmoud Toubasi, said her condition had improved but she remained in hospital Saturday night.
Three other NBC team members—a cameraman, producer and driver—were also injured and treated.
Producer Lawahez Jabari described the sudden arrival of the car and the assault that damaged camera equipment and a crew vehicle.
“Suddenly a car came to us,” she said after receiving medical care.
“The settlers had sticks, I saw a gun, but they didn’t use the gun.”
Camera operator Khaldoon Eid, who lives in the West Bank, expressed surprise at the location: “We didn’t expect that—that they would come to attack. We were in the middle of a Palestinian area next to Palestinian houses.”
The attack occurred amid several violent incidents in the area that day, including dozens of masked settlers spraying pepper spray at Palestinian workers and throwing rocks at a building in nearby Qusra, a village that has faced weeks of settler pressure.
‘Israeli’ security forces said they received reports of “rioters” and “violent clashes,” including stone-throwing.
Forces removed rioters who had barricaded themselves inside a Palestinian home, confiscated vehicles, and continued operating in Qusra and Jalud to restore order.
The incident fits a broader pattern of rising settler violence in the West Bank, where the United Nations and media groups have reported increased attacks on Palestinians and also journalists.
Between January and late July, ‘Israeli’ forces or settlers killed 76 Palestinians, according to UN data.
