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Israeli Settlers Attack a Convoy of Journalists in the Occupied West Bank 23%
By Amy Goodman0%
7/15/2026, 7:53:53 PM
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Israeli Settlers Attack a Convoy of Journalists in the Occupied West Bank
The journalists were accompanying the father of a Palestinian American who was beaten to death by settlers a year ago.
Israeli settlers armed with clubs, rocks and a knife attacked a convoy of journalists in the West Bank on Saturday, the latest targeting of foreign journalists documenting the Israeli occupation.
Four settlers have reportedly been detained over the attack.
The convoy, which included CNN’s Jeremy Diamond, were accompanying the father of Palestinian American Saif Musallet to the site where he was beaten to death by Israeli settlers one year ago.
To date, no one has been arrested for Musallet’s killing.
Independent journalist and Palestine solidarity activist Adele Shoko, who was in one of the cars, says the attack is part of an “unprecedented” escalation of settler activity in the occupied West Bank, taking place in so-called Area A, which is nominally under the full control of the Palestinian Authority.
“Area C is almost entirely ethnically cleansed by the settlers backed by the Israeli state, and they moved to Area B, attacking big villages.
But Area A is another level.”
We also speak with Jasper Nathaniel, who was also in the convoy and has been attacked multiple times while reporting in the occupied West Bank.
He says pro-Israel advocates who accuse journalists, activists and other international observers of staging “publicity stunts” are downplaying how routine settler intimidation and violence has become.
“If you spend enough time in the West Bank — and by enough time, I mean a couple days — something like that is going to happen to you,” says Nathaniel.
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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org.
I’m Amy Goodman, as we turn to the occupied West Bank, where Israeli settlers armed with clubs, rocks and a knife on Saturday attacked a group of journalists, including CNN’s Jeremy Diamond.
Four settlers have been reportedly detained for their alleged involvement in the attack.
Israeli Settlers Attack CNN Journalists Investigating Killing of Musallet
Masked settlers followed the journalists’ car and smashed the windshield.
The journalists were accompanying the father of a Palestinian American who was beaten to death by settlers a year ago.
It happened exactly a year after the murder of 20-year-old Palestinian American Saif Musallet, who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers.
To date, no one’s been arrested for his killing.
He was born in Florida, worked at his family’s ice cream shop there.
The journalists were accompanying his dad back to the site of his son’s death.
As they left, their cars were attacked by the settlers, chased out of town.
In a minute, we’ll be joined by two of the journalists.
But first, this is the video footage of the attack shared with Democracy Now!
The voices you hear are our next guests, Adele Shoko and Jasper Nathaniel.
In the video, you see the settlers attempting to slash the tires of the armored CNN vehicle and then breaking the windshield of the separate car carrying the other journalists.
The video is courtesy of independent journalist Andrey X, who was sitting in the back.
JASPER NATHANIEL: He’s saying “stop.”
ADELE SHOKO: Whoa!
He’s ready to throw a rock.
Look.
He’s threatening with a rock.
JASPER NATHANIEL: They are not letting us pass.
The guy is standing in front of the car in front of us, the CNN car, not letting him pass.
And they’re holding up rocks.
… Yeah, we need to fly behind them.
Oh, he’s got a knife.
He’s going for the tire.
ADELE SHOKO: Oh my god!
GABRIELE MICALIZZI: Go.
Go.
Go.
Go.
ADELE SHOKO: Oh [bleep]!
No, no, no, no, no!
He’s going to our car.
JASPER NATHANIEL: Go.
Drive.
Drive.
ADELE SHOKO: No!
No!
No!
JASPER NATHANIEL: Drive.
Move!
Move!
GABRIELE MICALIZZI: Move.
Move.
ANDREY X: Drive.
Drive.
Drive.
Drive.
Drive.
JASPER NATHANIEL: Move!
ANDREY X: Go.
Go.
Go.
JASPER NATHANIEL: Watch out!
Watch out!
AMY GOODMAN: This attack happened just days after armed Israeli settlers carrying U.S.-made M4 rifles surrounded a van carrying Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna, who was visiting a Palestinian village that had been destroyed by settlers.
Congressmember Khanna said his delegation was detained for about an hour and a half.
So, that was Congressmember Ro Khanna.
As we begin to wrap up, Jasper Nathaniel, if you can talk about these two attacks?
JASPER NATHANIEL: Yeah, I mean, the response to the Ro Khanna incident, I’ve found sort of grimly amusing, because the critics are saying this was a publicity stunt, this was set up, this was rigged, they went somewhere that they weren’t supposed to go, they didn’t work with the Israeli embassy.
The reality is, if you spend enough time in the West Bank — and by “enough time,” I mean a couple days — something like that is going to happen to you.
It’s an inevitability.
And, you know, just to put a fine point on that, I was actually in the village of Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta right before that incident happened.
Ro Khanna and his delegation visited then.
I saw him there.
And the people there explained what’s happening to them, which is basically their land is being stolen in real time.
About an hour after Ro Khanna’s team left, we were attacked in that village, so very violently by a group of settlers who live in an outpost right next door.
So, the irony is that had had Ro Khanna not gotten back on that bus and, you know, gotten hijacked, he would have actually been present during an attack, an actual violent attack.
And so, and then, you know, like you said, this happens.
Me and, you know, the Palestinians there are violently attacked.
Ro Khanna’s bus is held up by settlers.
Two days later, again, there’s this other brutal attack.
And I think it’s important to just, you know, reiterate what Adele said, which is that, you know, as journalists, especially as Westerners, like, we have a privilege of knowing that, frankly, the stakes of killing one of us are much higher than of killing a Palestinian.
You know, that’s why we go into these places, to basically show the brutality and the violence of settlers.
Like, if this is what they’ll do to me, and this is what they’ll do to a congressman, just imagine what they do to the Palestinians.
In Umm al-Khair, after I left, the attacks have just continued daily.
Yesterday, they came in — the Israeli military came in and demolished a family home, just because.
And so, you know, the pervasiveness of the cruelty in the West Bank, in the occupied West Bank, by the state of Israel and by the settlers, which are backed by the state, is just so pervasive that I would, frankly, challenge anybody to go into the West Bank, go into places like Masafer Yatta or even, you know, Sinjil or these villages outside Ramallah, and not face something like that.
I mean, it’s just impossible.
AMY GOODMAN: Jasper Nathaniel, I want to thank you for being with us, New York-based journalist covering Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
His Substack, Infinite Jaz, and Jewish Russian independent journalist Adele Shoko, joining us from Ramallah, from the occupied West Bank.
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AMY GOODMAN: “Heads Held High” by the New York City Palestinian Youth Choir.
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