Israeli Government Admits Journalists Beaten by Soldiers in 2015 Didn’t ‘Lead Riot’

Photographers receive $2,500 settlement ■ Video showed soldiers hitting and cursing at photographers, with one soldier throwing a rock

Amira Hass
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The government has retracted its claim that two news photographers “led a riot” in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh more than four years ago, and that their beating by soldiers was therefore justified.

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