World · 14 d ago
بدارين · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Israeli police arrest 10 after settler attacks on a US journalist and European diplomats
Abu Falah
Occupied West Bank
Settlers beat US photojournalist Heidi Levine, 63, on Friday in Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, leaving her with rib and vertebrae fractures and wounds that needed hand surgery.
Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A day later, masked settlers attacked European diplomats visiting the Christian village of Taybeh; France, Belgium and Poland called on Israel to act.
Suspected of
- Acts of violence
- Violating a closed military zone order
- Illegal construction
The 10 suspects, detained Monday, are held on suspicion of violence, breaching a closed military zone order and illegal construction, police said.
The diplomats entered a “sensitive area with a history of confrontations,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the facts of the attack on Levine “unclear.”
— Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister
Oct
27
Tuesday
Israel
The arrests come amid a surge in settler attacks on the Palestinian olive harvest, a week before Israel's Oct 27 election.
