Masked Israeli settlers attacked and injured a Palestinian woman and members of an NBC News team reporting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday.Four members of an NBC team were interviewing Aida Ahmed Abdullah and her family in the Palestinian town of Jalud, near Nablus.Abdullah said they had been driven out of their home by Israeli settlers, and the team was walking down the hill toward the house.A gray car with Israeli license plates then drove in reverse up the hill toward them, video of the incident shows.A masked man in a blue tracksuit, holding a stick, was leaning out of the rear passenger window as the vehicle approached.
When the car stopped, at least four men in dark clothes with their faces covered leapt out, hitting Abdullah and the crew with sticks and throwing rocks at them.“They jumped out, beat us, then jumped back in the car,” said NBC News international correspondent Matt Bradley, who was hit twice in the arm and later treated at a nearby clinic.NBC News journalists were attacked by masked Israeli settlers in the West Bank on Saturday.NBC NewsAbdullah, 51, who was on the ground after the attack, was taken for medical care by the Red Crescent.Her injuries were not life-threatening, according to an Israeli military and Israel Border Police statement.
According to her husband, Mahmoud Toubasi, Abdullah’s condition had improved but she remained in the hospital Saturday night.Three additional members of the NBC News team — a cameraman, producer and driver — were also injured and were treated following the attack.Producer Lawahez Jabari described how the car rushed up the hill before its occupants beat members of the team and damaged camera equipment and one of the crew’s vehicles.“Suddenly a car came to us,” she said after receiving medical care.“The settlers had sticks, I saw a gun, but they didn’t use the gun.”Camera operator Khaldoon Eid, who lives in the West Bank, said he was surprised the attack occurred in the mi...