In brief
During the autumn olive harvest, a dozen Israeli settlers from an outpost, dressed in black, rushed toward a field in the West Bank where Palestinian families had gathered. They set fire to about a dozen olive trees, hurled stones from slingshots, and disrupted the harvest. Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine, who was on the scene, was taken to hospital after being knocked to the ground. The UN Treasury flags that the past two weeks have seen more settler attacks than the whole harvest season of last year, calling the violence an all‑time high. The BBC’s Middle East Correspondent Lucy Williamson reports on the incident."
During the autumn olive harvest, a dozen Israeli settlers from an outpost, dressed in black, rushed toward a field in the West Bank where Palestinian families had gathered.
They set fire to about a dozen olive trees, hurled stones from slingshots, and disrupted the harvest.
Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine, who was on the scene, was taken to hospital after being knocked to the ground.
The UN Treasury flags that the past two weeks have seen more settler attacks than the whole harvest season of last year, calling the violence an all‑time high.
The BBC’s Middle East Correspondent Lucy Williamson reports on the incident.
