Journalist recounts attack in conflict zone

Recover quickly.

Thank you. And, uh-

And Jess, you can tell us what happened with you

today.

Yeah. First of all, I just wanna thank all, everyone

here and my colleagues and that I've known many

of you for decades. And, um, you've

always taken in-incredible care of me.

And today everyone has been taking incredible care of me,

um...

And work.

It's really, you know, just even yesterday, um, my

son Michael, who, um,

has always told me that his biggest fear would be

that his mother would be killed by the settlers.

And we even had this conversation yesterday.

Um, I just got back actually two days ago from

three weeks in

Ukraine. And, um, I've been covering this conflict here,

um, for... since-

Fifteen

... over three decades. And

this is, uh, the second time that I've been brutally attacked.

Uh, fifteen years ago, I was also attacked in front of the

army and the police and

outside of Havat Gilad. Today, um,

I was brutally attacked by... I mean, we saw on

the, on the,

in the, in the distance, in the hilltop,

I would say at least fifty masked men.

I was-- I had a one hundred to, uh,

five hundred millimeter lens that you could see the mask

with, um,

uh, slingshots. Um, and when they came

running down,

uh, I wa--

I was attacked, pushed to the ground.

I am-- luckily I had my flak jacket and my helmet, otherwise

I probably wouldn't even be here because they just

kept kicking me,

uh, and kicking me like probably fifty

times. And, um, and then

after like ten minutes, it, they like

tried to get me to stand up and then they to push me

down again and continued to kick me.

And I was trying to hold on to my cameras

and my pouch, and I had my phone on a string on my neck

that

they eventually just broke everything off of me and

continued kicking me. And then the next thing I noticed

is I was getting, uh, evacuated by my

Palestinian colleagues a-and, um, medical

service that rushed me in an ambulance, uh, first to

the medical center in Abu, uh, Disla, uh, to

check me and then to the hospital here.

And that's what happened.

And it... You could see they were lighting things on-- They

were lighting the

fields on fire, um, before.

Yeah.

Yeah. Hope you will be fine soon.

Thank you.

Mm-hmm.

One message to their parents. I don't know how a parent can

raise such monsters. Really.

Honestly.

I have witnessed

their behavior, uh, attacking families and,

uh, which we recently published a story, and I just am, I'm

so ashamed that, that

as a parent myself, I cannot understand how a

parent can raise such

individual

monsters. They're not even humans.

And yes,

they are Jewish terrorists, and they are giving everyone in the

country a horrible reputation and

unfortunately

everyone is seeing them,

uh,

through their, who, who they are.

And that's, you know what? Sadly, none of them will be

prosecuted. I am sure of

it.

I hope you'll be well soon.

Thank you.