Washington Post says photographer attacked by Israeli settlers

The Washington Post’s executive editor said Friday that Israeli settlers attacked one of its photojournalists, who was working on assignment in the West Bank.

“She was wearing visible markings clearly identifying her as a journalist,” Matt Murray wrote in a statement shared to social platform X. “We are outraged by this unwarranted attack on a journalist doing her job.”

A video capturing the incident — shared by the Post — appeared to show masked Israeli settlers attacking photographer Heidi Levine while she was on the ground, kicking her in the stomach. Separate posts by independent journalist Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, a pro-Palestinian activist, alleged the assailants also beat her with sticks.

“They took everything. They took all my stuff,” Levine said in the video when Khrzhanovskiy and other nearby journalists came to her aid. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times.”

After a few moments, the masked settlers began chasing Levine and the group that helped........

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