Confirmed · Ramallah, Palestinian territories ·
Israeli settlers attacked Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine while she was reporting on settler attacks on olive harvesters near Abu Falah in the occupied West Bank, pushing her down, kicking and beating her, and damaging her cameras and phone, according to Levine as reported by Middle East Eye. Her daughter told the Associated Press she had surgery on a nearly detached finger and has a broken rib, broken vertebrae and lacerations, and other outlets report at least two people injured, while Israel Police suspect settlers and Netanyahu's office calls for an investigation into who initiated the violence.
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Verification
Confirmed: 16 independent sources.
Details by origin
Each detail, with the independent origins that reported it. An origin is the outlet or channel where a claim first appeared; reposts count once. A row counts no more independent origins than the event does above; where it lists more, it says so. This counts reports: it is not a measure of accuracy, and it does not change the event's status. "Reports differ" means two origins gave values that cannot both be true; it is about that detail, not about whether the incident happened.
| Detail | Reported | Reported by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| What happened | Protest or unrest | BBC; Anadolu Ajansı (via Middle East Eye, WUSA9); CBS News; Al Jazeera English (via Al Jazeera English (Telegram)); @ME_Observer_ (X); CNN (via Committee to Protect Journalists, MS NOW, NBC News); Reuters; Politico; The Times of Israel; NPR (via WKU Public Radio); The Guardian; HuffPost; CBC; The New York Times; France 24; Le Monde.fr; DW.com; The New Arab; notus.org; Foreign Policy; Financial Times; Vox; PBS; US and Palestinian condemnations (via The Jerusalem Post); Haaretz (English); US officials (via i24NEWS); Telegraph India; www.fox10tv.com; News4JAX; KTVN | 30 origins listed, counted as 16 independent |
| Place | Ramallah, Palestinian territories | Anadolu Ajansı (via Middle East Eye, WUSA9); consistent with it: BBC; CBS News; Al Jazeera English (via Al Jazeera English (Telegram)); @ME_Observer_ (X); CNN (via Committee to Protect Journalists, MS NOW, NBC News); Reuters; Politico; The Times of Israel; NPR (via WKU Public Radio); The Guardian; HuffPost; CBC; The New York Times; France 24; Le Monde.fr; DW.com; The New Arab; notus.org; Foreign Policy; Financial Times; Vox; PBS; US and Palestinian condemnations (via The Jerusalem Post); Haaretz (English); US officials (via i24NEWS); Telegraph India; www.fox10tv.com; News4JAX; KTVN | One origin |
| Time | 16 Oct (local date) | Anadolu Ajansı (via Middle East Eye, WUSA9) | One origin |
| Who did it | Israeli settlers | BBC; Anadolu Ajansı (via Middle East Eye, WUSA9); CBS News; Al Jazeera English (via Al Jazeera English (Telegram)); @ME_Observer_ (X); CNN (via Committee to Protect Journalists, MS NOW, NBC News); Reuters; Politico; The Times of Israel; NPR (via WKU Public Radio); The Guardian; HuffPost; CBC; The New York Times; France 24; Le Monde.fr; DW.com; The New Arab; notus.org; Foreign Policy; Financial Times; Vox; PBS; US and Palestinian condemnations (via The Jerusalem Post); Haaretz (English); US officials (via i24NEWS); Telegraph India; www.fox10tv.com; News4JAX; KTVN | 30 origins listed, counted as 16 independent |
| Who did it | Jewish settlers | BBC | One origin |
| Target | AP/Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine | Anadolu Ajansı (via Middle East Eye, WUSA9); Al Jazeera English (via Al Jazeera English (Telegram)); @ME_Observer_ (X); CNN (via Committee to Protect Journalists, MS NOW, NBC News); Politico; The Guardian; HuffPost; France 24; Le Monde.fr; DW.com; The New Arab; notus.org; Vox; Haaretz (English); US officials (via i24NEWS); Telegraph India; www.fox10tv.com | 17 origins listed, counted as 16 independent |
| Target | Palestinians harvesting olives and Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine | BBC; Anadolu Ajansı (via Middle East Eye, WUSA9); CBS News; Al Jazeera English (via Al Jazeera English (Telegram)); Reuters; The Times of Israel; NPR (via WKU Public Radio); CBC; The New York Times; Financial Times; PBS | Reported by 11 independent origins |
| Target | Heidi Levine | Anadolu Ajansı (via Middle East Eye, WUSA9); CNN (via Committee to Protect Journalists, MS NOW, NBC News); US and Palestinian condemnations (via The Jerusalem Post) | Reported by 3 independent origins |
| Target | a photographer | US and Palestinian condemnations (via The Jerusalem Post); News4JAX; KTVN | Reported by 3 independent origins |
| Injured | 1 (figure from US officials) | US officials (via i24NEWS) | Reports differ |
| Injured | at least 2 (a lower bound) (figure from Al Jazeera) | Al Jazeera English (via Al Jazeera English (Telegram)) | Reports differ |
1 more value not shown.
This table may include reports the automated review judged to be about another incident.
Sources
- BBC,
- Middle East Eye,
- CBS News,
- Reuters,
- Committee to Protect Journalists,
- Al Jazeera English,
- CNN,
- @ME_Observer_ (X),
- Al Jazeera English,
- Al Jazeera English (Telegram),
- BBC,
- France 24,
- The Times of Israel,
- Politico,
- CBC,
- WKU Public Radio,
- NPR,
- Anadolu Ajansı,
- The Guardian,
- HuffPost,
- Middle East Eye,
- NBC News,
- The Times of Israel,
- Middle East Eye,
- MS NOW,
- Le Monde.fr,
- Middle East Eye,
- The New York Times,
- Anadolu Ajansı,
- CNN,
- DW.com,
- Financial Times,
- The New Arab,
- notus.org,
- Reuters,
- Foreign Policy,
- WUSA9,
- Vox,
- CBS News,
- NBC News,
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