The Washington Post reports:

Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers trying to gather their autumn olive harvest on Friday, setting groves on fire and slinging rocks in a coordinated assault that fits a pattern of accelerating settler violence across the occupied West Bank.

Also caught up in the attack was Heidi Levine, a veteran photographer for The Washington Post. Levine, wearing a protective vest clearly marked “PRESS” on front and back, was knocked to the ground, kicked repeatedly and stripped of her cameras and phone.

She was treated at hospital in Ramallah.

Witnesses described a mass-coordinated attack in which dozens of men in black came down from a hilltop settlement near the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, where Palestinian families were picking their olives. Video of the incident corroborated the witness accounts.

The settlers hurled stones with slings and set the groves on fire, chasing a group of journalists about 80 yards from the scene.

Levine described being overtaken by a group of attackers, hit and knocked to the ground. A video taken by another journalist showed her being struck repeatedly while she was on the ground.

“They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine told reporters.

Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, a blogger who filmed the assault, said the settlers beat Levine with sticks while the journalists and villagers were forced to retreat. [Continue reading…]

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.

Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://t.co/9YLUuU9ktP https://t.co/0SrFcIW4as

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 16, 2026