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US wants Israel to 'crack down' on settler violence in West Bank, Rubio says
Rubio said Washington wants Israel to deter settler violence after a video showed an American photojournalist being beaten and at least 170 attacks were reported.
- On Oct 17, Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Israel to deter settler violence in the West Bank, saying "We're very disturbed by those images and what we're seeing."
- Video showing multiple individuals attacking American photojournalist Heidi Levine of the Washington Post prompted Rubio's remarks; Levine was one of at least two people injured in the incident.
- Monitoring group Yesh Din reports Israeli settlers have been involved in at least 170 attacks against Palestinians since September 27, around the start of the annual olive harvest.
- European diplomats and a French mayor were also attacked in the occupied West Bank, according to Belgium's foreign minister, prompting State Department inquiries into the incidents.
- Rubio, who spoke before boarding a flight to Uzbekistan, said he expects to hear back from the Embassy in Jerusalem by Sunday regarding the attacks.
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The United States is "very upset" by the images of the attack on an American photojournalist in the West Bank. (ANSA)
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