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Israeli Police Arrest 10 Over Settler Attacks on a Journalist and Foreign Diplomats in the West Bank

A Washington Post photojournalist suffered broken vertebrae. U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee welcomed the arrests.

By Watchman Report staff ·

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Israeli police have arrested 10 people over attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank, the BBC reported Monday. The attacks included an assault on Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine near the village of Abu Falah, which left her with four broken vertebrae and a broken rib, and an attack on diplomats from Belgium, France, Poland and the Catholic Church near Taybeh, a Christian village.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee welcomed the arrests, the BBC reported.

The Israeli human rights group Yesh Din recorded 269 incidents during the first 20 days of the olive harvest, according to the BBC.

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