Coverage dated October 16, 2026 to October 18, 2026
US ambassador to Israel condemns settler attack on US journalist, and other Mideast news
Headline from WFMZ Allentown, on the newest of 3 developments
The U.S. ambassador to Israel condemns a settler attack that left an American journalist badly beaten in the West Bank. The attack happened Friday during an olive harvest. The journalist, Heidi Levine, was seriously injured and remains hospitalized. Israeli police…
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By Pesha Magid ABU FALAH, West Bank, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Clad in black and their faces masked, dozens of militant Israeli settlers burned olive trees and threw rocks at Palestinians in a coordinated attack on Friday on a West Bank village's annual harvest that injured at least two people including a …
Committee to Protect Journalists's feed description
Beirut, October 16, 2026 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the Friday Israeli settler attack on American journalist Heidi Levine, which wounded her while she was covering the olive harvest in Abu Fallah, near Ramallah in the occupied 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.
Settlers hurl rocks at Palestinians and beat photographer Heidi Levine as part of yearly attacks to disrupt harvest Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinians across the occupied West Bank in a coordinated movement to disrupt the annual olive harvest, burning cars and trees and injuring Palestinian…
Dozens of Israeli settlers beat and robbed veteran Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine Friday during an attack on an olive tree grove in the West Bank. The Israelis, masked and dressed all in black, beat the Palestinian villagers harvesting olives while chasing out a group of journalists there…
About 80 Israeli settlers set fire to olive trees and threw stones at Palestinians in a West Bank village Friday, injuring at least two people, including a US photojournalist with The Washington Post. The coordinated attack came as violence by settlers is on the rise during the olive harvest in the …
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians as they were harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring several people including a photojournalist working for The Washington Post .
The settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and beat Heidi Levine, a veteran photojournalist. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers did nothing to halt the violence.
Masked Israeli settlers set groves of olive trees on fire, attacked Palestinian villagers and beat a Washington Post journalist in the latest instance of rising settler violence.
The Washington Post's executive editor said Friday that Israeli settlers attacked one of its photojournalists, who was working on assignment in the West Bank. “She was wearing visible markings clearly identifying her as a journalist.” Matt Murray wrote in a statement shared to social platform X.
Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine said she was beaten by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. Reporters Without Borders slammed the attack as "brazen violence."
