“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah.
Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.
Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.
"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.
Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.
@qarieisa اگر چنين است و تو غيرت داري، برو استخوانهاي نيكه هاي خود را از قبر هاي كهنه بكش و چوب بزن و بپرس كه چرا خاك خود را فروختن.
چيز فروخته شده را چى طور كس مى تواند بفروشد
@alizai_rohullah عجب عدالتى
وقتى فوج پاكستان پنچشير را بمباردمى كرد اين ملى گرايان در كدام خواب بودن
بلى ما بر ضد هر نوع حمله پاكستان به خام خود استيم ولى سوال اي جاست كه چرا يك بام و دو هوا؟
پول این مهمانی ها از کجا می آید؟
در حالیکه بسیاری از مردم افغانستان حتی توان تهیه نان شب خود را ندارند، صلاحالدین ایوبی، والی #طالبان در لوگر، با بهنمایش گذاشتن کاروانی از موترهای زرهی و برگزاری مهمانی پرزرقوبرق، قدرت خود را به رخ مردمی میکشد که زیر سایهٔ این گروه با #فقر و بدبختی زندگی میکنند.