Police Arrest Four After Journalists Attacked Near Sinjil

Israeli police arrested four suspects after CNN and other journalists were attacked near Sinjil north of Ramallah while covering the one-year anniversary of the killing of Saif Musallet. Police accounts said suspects blocked the journalists' vehicles, caused damage, and that clubs and a knife were seized from a vehicle after IDF troops enabled the crews to pass. Accounts of the incident said the attackers carried rods and stones, one brandished a knife and tried to puncture the crew's tires, and another journalists' vehicle had its windshield smashed. The police and IDF said they view violence and property damage against media workers seriously, a law enforcement response that separates Israeli security from unlawful vigilantism.