Israeli Settlers Attack CNN Crew, Torch Palestinian Cars in West Bank

CNN Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond and his team were attacked by Israeli settlers while reporting in the West Bank near Ramallah, their vehicle's back window smashed but they escaped unharmed. The attack occurred as they were covering the killing of 20-year-old Palestinian-American Saif Musallet by settlers, amid a surge in extremist settler violence in the region. The Foreign Press Association condemned the assault and highlighted a pattern of such incidents without arrests, noting similar attacks on other international journalists. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the attack, emphasizing the broader targeting of Palestinian and foreign journalists by Israeli authorities and settler mobs. The International Federation of Journalists also reported increasing violence against journalists from both settlers and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. These incidents illustrate the growing dangers faced by media covering the escalating settler violence in the occupied territories.