WATCH: Palestinian Authority police assault CNN reporter, cameraman during pro-Hamas rally

PA policeman accost international correspondent, order cameraman to ease filming pro-Hamas demonstration.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
CNN's footage of its reporter being assaulted by Palestinian Authority policemen. (photo credit: COURTESY CNN)
CNN's footage of its reporter being assaulted by Palestinian Authority policemen.
(photo credit: COURTESY CNN)
Members of the Palestinian Authority security services assaulted a CNN reporter and his cameraman on Friday in the West Bank town of Hebron.
Ben Wedeman, the US news network’s correspondent who covers events in Israel and the Palestinian-administered territories, said that he was accosted by PA policeman who ordered that the cameraman cease filming a pro-Hamas demonstration.

Wedeman later told CNN that he came away with “a couple of bruises and a few scratches,” though there was damage to the camera.
Hamas had organized the demonstration as a show of solidarity for Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli jails.
“The Palestinian Authority doesn’t like press coverage of pro-Hamas protests, since these demonstrations are always aimed against the PA,” Wedeman told CNN.
Hamas is under pressure as Israeli forces continue to round up its operatives in a sweep of the West Bank that is entering its second week. IDF troops and the security services are searching frantically for three teenagers who were kidnapped last week. Israel blames Hamas for the abductions.