US Lawmakers Condemn Settler Violence After Washington Post Journalist Wounded in West Bank Clashes
- On Friday, October 16, 2026, Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine was beaten by masked settlers while covering an olive harvest near Turmus Ayya, suffering a broken rib, fractured vertebrae, and a nearly severed finger.
- Data from Israeli human rights group Yesh Din shows escalating seasonal violence, with 82 violent incidents against olive harvesters, 135 instances of crop theft, and 39 cases of damage to trees documented this season.
- The Mateh Binyamin Regional Council blamed the Palestinian Authority for the confrontation, alleging the PA had led "hundreds of anarchists and terrorists" into a direct clash, while the IDF said its forces "acted to disperse the confrontation using riot dispersal means."
- Condemning the attack, United States Representative Jamie Raskin called it "unconscionable," while Representative Ro Khanna demanded the US "cut off aid to Israel that is used to fund settler activity"; the Prime Minister's Office condemned the violence while noting investigations are ongoing.
- Nazem Saleh Shuman, mayor of Abu Falah, described the region as "unlivable" for residents living next to their fields, as officials and lawmakers continue calling for those responsible to be identified and held accountable.
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"Attalling a photographer is an abhorrent act of terror perpetrated by masked cowards," said Mike Huckabee, taking a much stronger tone than Washington's in a previous statement.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee demanded that Israel prosecute and imprison the perpetrators of an attack on a photojournalist.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee demanded jail for those responsible for the attack on Heidi Levine, photographer for The Washington Post, who suffered fractures in the West Bank.
On Friday, the U.S. State Department had adopted a cautious tone regarding this aggression, claiming to condemn "criminal violence, whatever its origin". ...
US ambassador urges Israel to prosecute over ‘act of terror’ against American photographer
JERUSALEM: US Ambassador Mike Huckabee on Saturday demanded that Israel prosecute and jail the assailants in a West Bank settler attack against a Washington Post journalist. “Attacking a female photographer is a despicable act of terror carried out by masked cowards,” Huckabee wrote on X, taking a far stronger tone than an earlier statement from Washington. Huckabee, a staunch ally of Israel who has nonetheless sharply criticized settler attacks…
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