'My son has always feared settlers would kill me': Photojournalist recounts attack
'My son has always feared settlers would kill me': Photojournalist recounts attack Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine, who was brutally attacked by a group of Israeli settlers on Thursday, says her son, Michael, has always told tell her that his biggest fear is that his mother "would be killed by settlers". "We even had this conversation yesterday," Levine said from her hospital bed as…
My son, Michael, has always harbored a profound fear that I, Heidi Levine, a photojournalist, would fall victim to the violence of Israeli settlers, she recounted from her hospital bed. Yesterday, during a conversation with her son, Levine disclosed the harrowing experience she endured while covering a story in the West Bank village of Abu Falah. She was violently assaulted by a group of young settlers, pushed to the ground, and left with her protective gear as her only defense.
The US Embassy swiftly condemned the act of violence, emphasizing that the safety and security of Americans is the highest priority for the Trump Administration. They called for thorough investigations, arrests, and convictions of those responsible for this assault. Levine, a Washington Post photojournalist, shared her account of the attack, revealing that the settlers also ransacked and looted her cameras and personal phone before she was rescued by fellow Palestinian journalists.
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