A video of an Israeli settler harassing a Palestinian reporter in the West Bank has gone viral.
A reporter from the Jordanian satellite channel Ro'ya TV was covering a protest on Friday in the small Arab village of Nabi Saleh, which is located about 15 miles north of Ramallah.
Midway into the reporter's broadcast, a young Israeli settler wearing a large kippah walks into the frame and begins chanting "El, el, Israel," interrupting the broadcast.
The Palestinian reporter uses the opportunity to say a few choice words about settlers. "This is the dirt of Israel and Israeli settlers that have no right here," she says.
The settler then points to his T-shirt and says in Hebrew, "Read this: Samaria is the state's Iron Dome," according to a translation by the Israeli news site Ynet News.
Samaria is the name that many Jews use to refer to the northern part of the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.
The settler's comments about the "Iron Dome" likely mean that he believes the presence of Israeli settlers in the West Bank provide a security buffer protecting Israel from the Arab world.
Watch the video:
The video was quickly picked up by news agencies in Israel, Palestine, Europe and the U.S.
In July, a correspondent and a cameraman from Ro'ya TV were pepper sprayed by Israeli soldiers while covering a different event in the West Bank. Below is a photo showing Ro'ya TV journalist Nebal Farsakh after being sprayed at the event, which was a memorial for the brutally-murdered teenager Mohammad Abu Khdeir:
(photo: AFP)
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