Before this attack, 10 days ago, settlers beat up Jaafar Ashtiyeh, an AFP reporter who was covering the olive harvest in the West Bank. He also needed medical care. While Levine was working near the Palestinian towns of Abu Falah and Turmus Ayya in the central West Bank, she was attacked by “more than 50″ masked settlers brandishing sticks. She told reporters about the attack from her hospital bed.They jumped me out of nowhere, but I was wearing my helmet and flak jacket, so I kept my face to the ground to protect it, she said.
They just kicked me over and over,” she said. Levine was first treated in Ramallah and then taken to Israel’s Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, where doctors found that she had broken four vertebrae and would need surgery.
The office of Netanyahu said that Levine had been “allegedly assaulted.” They also said that the events were “unclear and are under investigation.”An X post said, “Those responsible will be held accountable.” It gave a version of what happened, saying that “about 200 Arabs and far-left activists confronted about 40 Israeli youths,” with people on both sides throwing things at each other. In the upcoming elections, Gadi Eisenkot is Netanyahu’s main opponent. He said that Friday’s “unacceptable” attack was the fault of a “handful of rioters” whose actions “stain a whole nation.
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