Israeli settlers brutally attack Washington Post journalists in the West Bank On Friday, October 16, Heidi Levin, a Washington Post journalist, was attacked by dozens of masked settlers while she was covering Palestine's annual olive harvest in the village of Abu Falah in the West Bank. Levin, who was clearly marked as "press", was surrounded, knocked to the ground, brutally beaten and kicked. She suffered several cuts, a broken rib, four broken vertebrae and one of her fingers was cut to the bone. Local Palestinian youths wanted to save the journalists and evacuated her from the ongoing attack.

Israeli settlers brutally attack Washington Post journalists in the West Bank On Friday, October 16, Heidi Levin, a Washington Post journalist, was attacked by dozens of masked settlers while she was covering Palestine's annual olive harvest in the village of Abu Falah in the West Bank. Levin, who was clearly marked as "press", was surrounded, knocked to the ground, brutally beaten and kicked. She suffered several cuts, a broken rib, four broken vertebrae and one of her fingers was cut to the bone. Local Palestinian youths wanted to save the journalists and evacuated her from the ongoing attack.