Lebanon Iznogood: Foreign Jewish Terrorist Settlers Attack CNN Crew in Occupied Palestine

The Jewish Zionist colonial mega-settlement in Palestine, a.k.a. Israel, hates journalists and the media. It bans them from areas where the Zionist terrorist militias are conducting ethnic cleansing ans genocide. The "Blight unto Nations" doesn't want the world to know what it is doing to the indigenous people of Palestine: massacres, land theft, home demolitions, deportations, displacement into refugee camps, starvation, rapes, storming villages, killing herds of sheep, uprooting millennial olive trees....

Even when terrorized and murdered by the hundreds by Jewish Zionist terrorists, western journalists and reporters are terrified of labeling the foreign Jewish settlers of Palestine for what they are: TERRORISTS. This goes to show how conditioned westerners (whose nations perpetrated the Holocaust) are to fear Zionists. The label TERRORIST is exclusively used by the western press and media to describe the indigenous Palestinian people fighting for their life and freedom from occupation and genocide.
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CNN Crew Attacked By Israeli JEWISH TERRORIST Settlers In West Bank Amid Escalating Violence Against Journalists
Melanie Goodfellow
Tue, July 15, 2025

CNN Jerusalem Correspondent Jeremy Diamond has reported that Israeli settlers attacked the car that he and his crew were traveling in as they visited the West Bank on assignment over the weekend.

The experienced journalist, who was previously the White House Correspondent for CNN, and his crew were making their way to the Palestinian town of Sinjil to report on the circumstances around the death on July 11 of U.S. citizen Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat.

The 20-year-old Florida native was visiting family in Sinjil who allege that the young man was beaten by Israeli settlers who then blocked ambulances from reaching the area where he lay dying from his wounds.

“As we were covering this story, my team & I were attacked by Israeli settlers. The back window of our vehicle was smashed, but we managed to escape unharmed,” wrote Diamond in a post on X, accompanied by an image of the damaged car late Monday. “This is just a sliver of the reality many Palestinians face in the West Bank amid rising settler violence.”

The Jerusalem-based Foreign Press Association (FPA), representing 400 media professionals working in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, put out a statement on the attack on Tuesday saying it was part of a rising cycle of settler violence against local and international journalists.

“This is the second settler attack on foreign journalists in Sinjil this month. On July 4, a Deutsche Welle team was chased by settlers while filming. A window of DW’s car was smashed with stones, and its bodywork dented. In each of these incidents, settlers struck in broad daylight. Yet so far, we are unaware of any arrests being made.

“This is taking place at a time when our Palestinian colleagues routinely face threats, intimidation and violence at the hands of settlers and security forces, while the foreign press is routinely vilified by some Israeli public figures,” continued the statement.

In a separate statement published on July 8, prior to Musalat’s death and the attack on the CNN crew, the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) also reported a rising number of attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers on Palestinian and international journalists.

It cited the case of Palestinian journalist Issam al-Rimawi was attacked by Israeli settlers in al-Mughayyir, a village northeast of Ramallah, and beaten so badly that he lost consciousness.

In another case in Jenin on 28 May, Israeli soldiers fired warning shots near the car in which French journalist Amira Souilem of France 24 and Radio France Internationale, Palestinian journalist Mohammed Mansour, and three other Palestinian colleagues were traveling, even though it was clearly marked “press”.

On 2 June, an international group of reporters was prevented by masked Israeli soldiers from visiting Masafer Yatta, a cluster of villages on the southern edge of the West Bank which was the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.

The journalists had been invited by the film’s co-directors Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra, who then documented the army’s obstruction of the visit.

The FPA also noted the fact that the Israeli army has been blocking journalists from entering refugee camps in the northern West Bank from which tens of thousands of Palestinians have been expelled in recent months.

“These phenomena have led to a worrying and rapid shrinking of the space and freedom to report on Palestinian lives,” said the FPA. “We call on Israeli authorities to uphold the country’s stated commitment to freedom of the press by ensuring the safety of journalists and prosecuting, not protecting, their assailants.”

In addition to these restrictions in the West Bank, international journalists are currently barred from entering the Gaza Strip, unless as part of a rare embed with the Israeli army.

In an open letter in early June, more than 200 press freedom advocacy groups and international newsrooms published a letter demanding that foreign journalists be granted “immediate, independent and unrestricted” access to the Gaza Strip.