TV Diary: Secunder Kermani on reporting from the Middle East
Breakfast is in Jerusalem. I’ve spent the previous day filming a report in the Occupied West Bank about a spate of deadly attacks by mobs of Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages. They were triggered by the killing of an Israeli teenage boy by Palestinians, but fit within a wider rise in settler violence, emboldened by the rise of extremist political allies and the atmosphere around the war in Gaza.