Matt Bradley

Foreign correspondent for @NBCNews and @NBCNewsNow based in Tel Aviv. Formerly @WSJ in Egypt and Iraq. Retweets not endorsements, etc. Instagram: @MattMcBradley

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: The FlyDubai copilot who stabbed his captain had been banned from flying by Oman over concerns he held radical ideological views https://t.co/ZNh6PEseEv

[Tom Winter @Tom_Winter]

NEW: Investigators key in on terrorism as the motive for yesterday's stabbing on a FlyDubai flight.

What could the black boxes yield? What more do we know?

Our story from @TODAYshow:

[Tom Winter @Tom_Winter]

NBC News: The stabbing increasingly looks like an act of terrorism based on the early results from the investigation, according to a senior U.S. official briefed on the Israeli investigation and a Saudi official briefed on the investigation.

https://t.co/eaJf2rR5ug

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Now UAE weighing in.

[Matt Bradley @MattMcBradley]

Passengers who were aboard the Fly Dubai flight have landed in Tel Aviv.

[Matt Bradley @MattMcBradley]

The flight taking the FlyDubai passengers from Saudi Arabia to Tel Aviv has now departed.

We’re expecting them here in about an hour or 90 minutes.

[Matt Bradley @MattMcBradley]

The mother of one of the passengers on the FlyDubai flight just told us that the passengers are still in Saudi Arabia.

They haven’t yet taken off for Tel Aviv.

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

Israeli fighter jets were scrambled toward the aircraft, according to N12.

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz are holding urgent consultations. A senior security official says authorities still do not understand what is happening and are not convinced this is a hijacking.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

The plane activated distress signals, and there has been no contact with it since.

All possibilities are, of course, being investigated.

[OCHA OPT (Palestine) @ochaopt]

Since 2023, over 6,500 Palestinians have been displaced due to settler attacks and access restrictions in the #WestBank, with 49 communities fully displaced. On top of casualties and other destruction, 88,000 trees and saplings have been damaged. Full map: https://t.co/QtZg5mv7XY

[Matt Bradley @MattMcBradley]

We went to the West Bank town of Jalud last month to speak to the Tubassi family, a couple who had been kicked out of their home by violent Israeli settlers.

During our interview, a group of settlers violently attacked and injured the Tubassis and my team.

Last night, Israeli police and military tried to execute a court order to return the Tubassis to their home. Instead they were greeted by hundreds of settlers who rioted, burning the Tubassi home and injuring three Israeli border police.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned last night's anti-Palestinian pogrom, but less than a week ago he told the UN General Assembly that the settler attacks in the West Bank were an exaggerated problem that comes down to about 150 delinquents who “throw stones,” “chop down olive trees,” and occasionally “light fires.”

https://t.co/L0s3k9CrcS

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Exclusive: Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel shortly before October 7 with a dire warning about Gaza, @vmsalama reports.

[Trip Gabriel @tripgabriel]

The NYT confirms Haaretz's report that Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly warned before Oct. 7, 2023 by the Emirati president that Hamas planned a major attack, per 2 sources

The warning was not shared with Israeli security chiefs, per 5 ex-officials

https://t.co/BCnwcyzg8C

[Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg]

Major scoop from @vmsalama, via @theatlantic: Egypt's intelligence chief warned Israel that Gaza was about to blow, just weeks before the October 7th Hamas invasion:
https://t.co/NU1Il3doIW

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Motaz Azaiza is forcing a reckoning the “pro‑Palestine” movement never anticipated. Because he’s celebrated by activists, politicians, and journalists and can’t be smeared as a “Zionist shill,” his admission carries weight: Gaza’s journalism space functioned under Hamas’s control, and any reporter who deviated from the group’s narrative risked “disappearing behind the sun.” That single truth reshapes how we understand the stories pushed out of Gaza since October 7 and explains why dissent against Hamas’s rule never surfaced publicly. Western journalists and outsiders, unaware of this coercive ecosystem, ended up amplifying Hamas’s information warfare rather than scrutinizing it.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel is systematically killing, torturing, imprisoning and displacing Palestinians in the West Bank on a vast scale. This is a coordinated assault by the military, police, intelligence services, prison authorities and settler militias, all backed by Israel's legal system.

In the past three years, Israel has killed more than 1,100 Palestinians in the West Bank, 240 of them children or teens, and at least 32 Palestinians from the West Bank have died in Israeli detention facilities. The military has repeatedly raided cities, villages and refugee camps, shooting and killing people, destroying homes and infrastructure and carrying out mass arrests. Meanwhile, thousands of settlers have been drafted into military units, authorized to carry weapons and granted official powers, while the state gives them free rein and military backing. Since October 2023, settlers have killed 35 Palestinians in the West Bank. In the first half of 2026 alone, more than 1,020 attacks against Palestinians were documented, averaging more than five a day. On the ground, the line between “settler” and “soldier” is increasingly disappearing.

Israeli soldiers, settlers and police officers are almost never held accountable for harming Palestinians. They are protected by a system that shields them from accountability and grants them effective impunity – not as an oversight, but as part of the system.

This violence affects more than the direct victims: it holds an entire society in a state of constant fear. Every day, 3.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank know that armed soldiers and settlers may enter their homes at any moment, while stepping outside is a calculated risk with checkpoints popping up unannounced and the threat of arbitrary violence is ever present.

The fear is not an unexpected byproduct of the violence: it is a deliberate means of control.

Intimidating an entire people is one arm of the Elimination Project: Israel's ongoing effort to dismantle the conditions that allow Palestinians to exist as a collective in the West Bank, while cementing Jewish supremacy and control over the land.

Read more in our new report, "The Elimination Project". https://t.co/aWjyA06fAp

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

For the first time in the 2026 election polling, a Channel 13 poll shows Netanyahu’s bloc larger than the bloc opposing him.

Netanyahu’s Likud itself is at 18 seats, Winter is already at 6, and Yoezer and Yarkhi do not cross the electoral threshold.

[Matt Bradley @MattMcBradley]

They were showered with adulation abroad, but the Academy Award-winning filmmakers behind a new documentary accusing the Israeli military of recklessly killing civilians in Gaza now face a storm of condemnation at home.

The backlash against “NAZA” has been so intense that one of its co-creators told Israeli media on Monday that he deleted his social media accounts and is afraid to return to Israel.

Very few people have actually seen the film, but Israel’s prime minister called it “shocking incitement.” Israel’s military has asked prosecutors to consider criminal charges against the documentarians and the culture minister has openly speculated about the possibility of stripping the filmmakers of their Israeli citizenship for what he called “treason.” 

#Israel #Gaza #Naza

[Matt Bradley @MattMcBradley]

They were showered with adulation abroad, but the Academy Award-winning filmmakers behind a new documentary accusing the Israeli military of recklessly killing civilians in Gaza now face a storm of condemnation at home.

The backlash against “NAZA” has been so intense that one of its co-creators told Israeli media on Monday that he deleted his social media accounts and is afraid to return to Israel.

Very few people have actually seen the film, but Israel’s prime minister called it “shocking incitement.” Israel’s military has asked prosecutors to consider criminal charges against the documentarians and the culture minister has openly speculated about the possibility of stripping the filmmakers of their Israeli citizenship for what he called “treason.” 

https://t.co/f7ZOXekB2W

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Protestors tonight gathered outside the home of the parents of Rachel Szor, in the affluent town of Savyon, (when she is not there, she is abroad) one the directors of the NAZA movie and are terrorizing them and counter-demonstrators by calling for their death. This is what fascism looks like.