Media affiliation criticizes violent arrest of CNN crew | EUROtoday

An worldwide press affiliation has accused the Israeli military of arbitrarily and violently arresting a CNN crew within the West Bank. The US information channel’s journalists had been arrested by Israeli troopers on Thursday whereas reporting on the aftermath of an assault by Israeli settlers and the institution of an unlawful outpost close to the village of Tajasir, the Foreign Press Association (FPA) mentioned on Saturday.

The group criticized the troopers for “aggressively pointing their rifles” on the crew and at Palestinian civilians current. They ordered the crew to cease filming and threatened to confiscate the digital camera. A soldier then put a CNN photographer in a stranglehold from behind, knocked him to the bottom and broken his digital camera.

“This was not a misunderstanding. It was a violent attack on clearly identifiable journalists and a direct attack on press freedom,” mentioned the FPA, which represents a whole bunch of journalists in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Targeting journalists and media crews “reflects a deeply worrying hostility towards the media and cannot be tolerated under any circumstances,” the journalists’ group warned.

The Israeli military introduced that it was investigating the incident. The habits of the troopers doesn’t mirror the perspective of the military, army spokesman Nadav Shoschani wrote on the net service

There was already an incident a number of days in the past wherein a CNN worker was left with a damaged wrist after an assault by Israeli law enforcement officials.

Violence within the Israeli-occupied West Bank has not subsided even after a ceasefire within the Gaza Strip got here into pressure in October 2025. The begin of the Iran War has additionally led to a brand new wave of lethal assaults by Israeli settlers on Palestinians.