Israel suspends battalion that detained CNN crew in West Bank | EUROtoday

The Israeli army suspended a battalion of reservist troopers on Monday, days after it detained a CNN crew within the West Bank village of Tayasir.

Jeremy Diamond, CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent, and his group had been in Tayasir on Thursday reporting on assaults by Israeli settlers on Palestinians when troopers from the Israel Defense Forces’ Netzah Yehuda unit intervened. One of the troopers positioned Cyril Theophilos, a CNN photojournalist, in a chokehold, introduced him to the bottom and broken his digital camera, the community reported. The crew members had been detained for about two hours.