Four settlers arrested for attacking CNN crew in West Bank

Israeli police said they arrested four suspects on Saturday for damaging a vehicle carrying foreign journalists in the occupied West Bank.

US broadcaster CNN had described it as an attack on its crew by Israeli settlers.

According to CNN, its team was reporting near the village of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, when the incident took place.

"As the CNN team and other journalists tried to leave, a group of four settlers blocked the road with their car and tried to keep the vehicles from moving forward," the network said in a report on its website.

"The four settlers were wielding wooden and metal rods and stones. One settler brandished a knife and tried to puncture the tyres of CNN's vehicle."

In a statement, Israeli police said, "Forces from the Samaria Brigade were dispatched to the scene, secured the journalists' passage, and detained four suspects believed to have been involved in the incident." (Reporting by AFP)