The Israeli army suspended a battalion of reservist troopers on Monday, days after it detained a NCS crew in the West Bank village of Tayasir.
Jeremy Diamond, NCS’s Jerusalem correspondent, and his staff have 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 NCS photojournalist, in a chokehold, introduced him to the bottom and broken his digital camera, the community reported. The crew members have been detained for about two hours.