Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed “juvenile delinquents” for stopping and harassing Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D-CA) delegation in the West Bank.

In a Saturday post on X, Khanna said that while visiting the West Bank, he was stopped and detained by “Israeli settlers, brandishing American-made M4s.” He said that when the Israel Defense Forces arrived at the scene, “they sided with the settlers & continued our detention.” Netanyahu disputed the telling of events in a Sunday appearance on NBC News’s Meet the Press, putting the blame on young troublemakers who weren’t representative of the settler community.