- Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine was hospitalised after being brutally attacked by masked Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Abu Falah.
- Levine was beaten with clubs and robbed of her equipment while covering the annual Palestinian olive harvest alongside other journalists.
- Witnesses reported that around 50 armed settlers carried out the attack, with Israeli soldiers accused of failing to intervene before live rounds were fired.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated the incident was under investigation, but claimed activists confronted Israeli youths, contradicting witness reports.
- The assault comes amid record settler violence in the West Bank, with monitoring group Yesh Din recording more than 230 harvest-related attacks since late September.
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