A CNN reporter said that his crew was set upon by violent settlers while in the West Bank this week to report on the death of a 20-year-old Palestinian-American who was allegedly beaten to death by Israelis near Ramallah days earlier, as reports of brazen Jewish extremist assaults in the territory continued to spiral unchecked.

Israeli settlers were also accused of attacking a 65-year-old Palestinian man at his home in the southern West Bank Monday morning and of torching cars in the Ramallah-area village of Burqa overnight.

According to CNN, the reporting team was attacked on Sunday while making its way to the town of Sinjil, where 20-year-old Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat was killed during a violent raid by settlers on Friday.

The crew was being driven to the site where Musalat had been killed when a white car with at least four masked settlers began trailing them, according to the report.

The settlers initially “tried to pelt” the reporters’ car as they approached an intersection, but fled after the crew approached a Border Police vehicle, the report said.

After the police went to search for the assailants, the settlers, who had been waiting in hiding, ambushed the team, according to CNN. One of the settlers used “some sort of club or mallet” to hit the vehicle, breaking the window as the crew fled the scene.

“As we were covering this story, my team and I were attacked by Israeli settlers. The back window of our vehicle was smashed, but we managed to escape unharmed,” CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond tweeted overnight Monday-Tuesday, attaching a photo of the damage to the car to the post.

Israeli police told CNN they were investigating the attack and were taking it “extremely seriously.”

The Foreign Press Association denounced the incident in a statement that accused authorities of turning a blind eye to the violence, noting that two reporters from German daily Deutsche Welle were injured in an attack by settlers in the same area earlier in July.

“In each of these incidents, settlers struck in broad daylight. Yet so far, we are unaware of any arrests being made. This is taking place at a time when our Palestinian colleagues routinely face threats, intimidation and violence at the hands of settlers and security forces, while the foreign press is routinely vilified by some Israeli public figures,” the association said.

The statement also accused authorities of blocking journalists from entering refugee camps in the northern West Bank, where “tens of thousands of Palestinians have been expelled in recent months,” amid Israeli anti-terror operations.

Musalat, born and based in Florida, traveled to the West Bank last month to spend time with relatives, his family said in a statement issued by lawyer Diana Halum following the deadly attack.

He was beaten to death on Friday in Sinjil, a village north of Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said. A second man, Mohammed Rizq Hussein al-Shalabi, 23, died after being shot during the attack and “left to bleed for hours,” according to the PA.

The Israel Defense Forces said violence flared after Palestinians threw rocks at a group of Israelis, lightly injuring two civilians. According to Palestinian accounts, the settlers instigated the clash when Palestinians tried to protest the establishment of a new illegal outpost adjacent to Sinjil, one of dozens that have mushroomed across the West Bank with little to no enforcement by Israeli authorities.

Police said Saturday that six people were arrested in connection with the incident, including two settlers and an IDF reservist.

Settlers were also accused of setting fire to Palestinian property in Burqa, a Palestinian town east of Ramallah, where settlers have carried out rising numbers of attacks on Palestinians and waged what appears to be a concerted campaign to drive Bedouin shepherds off the land.

According to Palestinian media reports, settlers torched several vehicles parked in a lot on the outskirts of the town.

According to the Palestinian Authority’s official Wafa news site, settlers also torched a junkyard in the western part of the village.

Footage from the scene showed a number of cars engulfed in flames.

A Burqa resident told Wafa that Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene after the settler attack but that no arrests were made, as is almost always the case in such incidents.

There was no immediate comment from the IDF or police on the incident.

In the southern West Bank, a Palestinian eyewitness who wished to remain anonymous told The Times of Israel that six settlers attacked a 65-year-old resident of Umm Nir in the South Hebron Hills Monday morning, leaving him with injuries that required hospitalization. According to the witness, the settlers beat Mousa Nawaj’ah in his yard as he stepped outside to feed his dogs.

Nawaj’ah was taken to a Palestinian hospital in non-life-threatening condition, with injuries to his ribs and back, and lacerations on his hands. Footage showed him being evacuated on a stretcher.

There was no comment from police.

Rights groups have denounced a rise in violence committed by settlers in the West Bank, which Israel has controlled since capturing the area from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. The United Nations has said that such attacks against Palestinians are taking place in a climate of “impunity.”

A spokesman for the UN human rights office told reporters Tuesday that “Israeli settlers and security forces have intensified their killings, attacks and harassment of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in the past weeks.”

In June, the UN said it recorded the highest monthly count of Palestinians injured in over two decades in the West Bank.

Separately, the IDF said that during military operations in the West Bank city of Jericho Monday night, “a terrorist tried to ram IDF troops operating in the area.”

According to the IDF, the troops responded with gunfire toward the attempted rammer and “neutralized him.”

The man in question was arrested, and no troops were harmed, the IDF added. His condition was not known.

Violence in the West Bank has surged since the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza.

Since then, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 950 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or terrorists carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 53 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of Israeli security forces have been killed in fighting during anti-terror raids in Nablus, Jenin, and elsewhere in the West Bank.

Agencies contributed to this report.