Jeremy Diamond, CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent, and his team were in Tayasir on Thursday reporting on attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians when soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces’ Netzah Yehuda unit intervened. One of the soldiers placed Cyril Theophilos, a CNN photojournalist, in a chokehold, brought him to the ground and damaged his camera, the network reported. The crew members were detained for about two hours.
In an article published Saturday on CNN’s website, Diamond wrote that the incident “laid bare the settler ideology motivating many of the soldiers who operate in the occupied West Bank — and the ways in which soldiers frequently act in service of the settler movement.” Soldiers from the unit, including the one who assaulted the cameraman, asserted that all Palestinians are terrorists and that the West Bank belongs exclusively to Israel, Diamond wrote.
The IDF took a rare step this weekend, condemning the battalion over the incident — even before announcing its suspension.
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