Overview
- A group of masked men jumped from a gray car and attacked an NBC News crew and their Palestinian interviewee with sticks and stones, smashing the crew’s windshield and toppling a camera while the assault was filmed.
- NBC correspondent Matt Bradley and team members were treated for minor injuries and are recovering in Tel Aviv, and the interviewee, Aida Ahmed Abdullah, was hospitalized then released but her home remains occupied by settlers.
- Crew members and witnesses reported the car had Israeli license plates and that a producer saw what looked like a gun that was not fired, details that are visible in the network’s released footage.
- Israeli officials publicly condemned the violence and the military and border police have opened an investigation into the incident, and no arrests have been reported so far.
- Reporting links the attack to a broader recent surge in settler violence documented by the United Nations and local outlets, raising new questions about enforcement, settler impunity, and the safety of civilians and journalists in the West Bank.