Conflict · West BankMasked Settlers Beat NBC Crew and Palestinian Woman; No ArrestsAired September 1, 2026 at 3:01 AM UTCWritten September 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:00Masked settlers beat an NBC News crew and a Palestinian woman on a West Bank0:05hillside.0:05A news team came to the village of Jalud, southeast of Nablus, to interview a family0:10that says settlers forced them from their home.0:12By the time they walked back down the hill that afternoon, the men who attacked them0:16had driven off, and the crew's own cameras had caught it.0:19Correspondent Matt Bradley was hit twice in the arm.0:21Producer Lawahez Jabari said a gun was visible but never used, and added that they0:26did not expect the attack in the middle of a Palestinian area surrounded by houses.0:31The fifty-one-year-old woman the crew had come to interview, Ada Ahmed Abdullah, was0:36left on the ground and evacuated by the Palestinian Red Crescent.0:40The Israeli military and border police called her injuries not life-threatening.0:44Bradley said she was beaten unconscious, and her husband said she remained in0:48hospital that night.0:49She is now out and recovering.0:51The crew's injuries were described as minor, with no clinical diagnoses published.0:55The same statement described a separate raid that day in nearby Khusra, where dozens1:00barricaded themselves inside a Palestinian home before vehicles were confiscated.1:04The Associated Press noted the military did not specifically comment on the attack1:08on the NBC crew.1:09The evidence is on camera, but the accountability is not.1:12No arrests, no named attackers, and the Prime Minister's own claim about the seized1:17vehicles is already contested.1:18The figure that gained attention needs care.1:21The United Nations count of 76 Palestinians killed this year through late July is a1:25combined total killed by Israeli forces or by settlers, not by settlers alone.1:30The settler-specific toll is far smaller.1:3323 Palestinians killed in the context of settler attacks so far this year.1:37Out of 79 West Bank deaths, 19 of them children, with more than a thousand injured,1:4276 was never the settler toll.1:44Read it as forces or settlers together, and the picture holds the displacement came1:49first, more than a month before the beating.1:51The family lost their home to settlers in July, and the house remains occupied even1:56as a High Court petition over that loss is live.1:58And this is not a single incident.2:00United Nations figures count 1,835 settler attacks across the West Bank in2:062025, roughly 190 a month in early 2026, and more than2:101,430 incidents by mid-August affecting about 260 communities.2:15At least 26 Palestinians were killed by settlers across 2023 through 2025 combined.2:20The Foreign Press Association called this attack part of a recurring pattern of2:24violence against members of the press and Palestinian civilians, and urged the2:28military and police to hold perpetrators accountable and protect journalists in the2:31West Bank.2:32The core question is whether an investigation with no arrests and no named attackers2:36as of August 31st will produce any at all.2:39The assault is on camera.2:40The men in the gray car have not been identified.Explore with HeyDexThe shortThe short ↗