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American Journalist, Palestinians Injured in Clashes with Masked Israeli Settlers in West Bank
Levine was hospitalized after masked settlers beat her, burned olive trees and fired on harvesters as dozens of Palestinians gathered for the olive harvest.
- On Friday, Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was hospitalized after being beaten by settlers in the West Bank village of Abu Falah while documenting the Palestinian olive harvest near Ramallah.
- According to Reuters, around 80 settlers moved into olive groves on Friday, burning trees and hurling rocks at villagers as the attack disrupted the annual harvest.
- Video captures settlers surrounding Levine, throwing her to the ground, and robbing her of equipment; bloodied and bandaged, she replied: Im going to die.
- Palestinian colleagues intervened to secure Levine's transfer to a hospital in Ramallah, where she remains in stable condition; Palestinians also claimed IDF forces fired tear gas and live ammunition during the violence.
- Earlier this month, Levine co-bylined a report on an AFP photographer beaten by settlers while covering the same olive harvest, continuing her extensive West Bank documentation of settlement expansion and attacks.
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Washington Post journalist hospitalized after Israeli settler attack on Palestinian olive harvest in West Bank
By Abeer Salman, Ibrahim Dahman and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A Washington Post photojournalist was hospitalized after Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank attacked her and a group of Palestinians during the annual olive harvest. Veteran photojournalist Heidi Levine, who was on assignment for the Washington Post, said the group of Palestinians she
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At least two people have been injured one of them an American photojournalist from The Washington Post, Heidi Levine after a large-scale assault by Israeli Jewish settlers against the olive harvest in the West Bank. Read more...
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