Despite images from scene of attack and IDF condemnation, PM suggests incident could be part of 'coordinated smear campaign'; Belgium to push for EU sanctions on those involved

From her hospital bed, Heidi Levine says PM's suggestion that settlers were trying to help her up is 'such a lie and the biggest insult'; Huckabee decries 'despicable act of terror'

With Israeli rabbi's blessing, settlers are stealing Palestinians' olive harvest; with IDF support, settlers are beating both Palestinians and int'l visitors. That's not all.

Images show diplomat on the ground, damage to vehicle; IDF condemns 'severe' attack, says diplomatic delegation didn't coordinate Taybeh visit as police launch probe; settlers said to kill around 20 sheep in Palestinian village

The settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and beat Heidi Levine, a veteran photojournalist. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers did nothing to halt the violence.

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Heidi Levine says she was saved by flak jacket, helmet in Abu Falah attack, as US embassy and Washington Post slam incident; olive trees and vehicles set on fire near Turmus Ayya; 70-year-old attacked near Birzeit

Civilian lightly hurt in hit-and-run near settlement, IDF says it isn't terror and came after settlers blocked Palestinian cars; separately, settlers said to burn a Palestinian car

“No Palestinians in the West Bank are exempt from this threat, including Christian communities and institutions,” said Bishop Dr Imad Haddad of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land

Zamir urges 'readiness on every front' during 'sensitive period' of West Bank olive harvest and run-up to Israeli election; PM says Iran’s regime ‘must go,’ doubts it will fall before Israelis vote on Oct. 27

Security forces say groups raise money for PFLP, provide legal aid for terrorists; settlers reportedly set fire to mosque and car in West Bank village

Indiscriminate, disproportionate bombing killed massive numbers of Gazans (as Palestinian reporters have said for 3 years); new levels of Israeli settler barbarity; more

Settler violence turns West Bank harvest into a nightmare ■ More Israeli testimony implicates IDF for massive civilian casualties ■ Israel's detention, torture of Syrians ■ More

The Milstein scandal shows the ambassador undercutting American policy and the express wishes of the president.

NYT: David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities. Milstein is the stepson of right-wing radio host Mark Levin

While mainstream media covered the flydubai incident ad nauseum, Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank were killing Palestinians and marauding their land

Katz said the campaign would include mass displacement across the West Bank in line with the ‘Gaza and Lebanon models’

Then, Zaid said, the beatings began. “It hurt so much I couldn’t breathe, and it’s then that I told them what they wanted to hear," - that he had been throwing stones

Israeli soldiers have demolished an entire West Bank village and killed two teenagers, continuing a surge of violence against Palestinians in the occupied territory

Violent settlers raided land owned by a Palestinian family on Rosh Hashanah and attacked the father with spiked clubs. When his sons rushed to his aid, one of them suffered a shattered leg, cracked ribs and damage to his lungs

Israeli soldiers stealing prosthetic limbs, settlers shooting to kill, politicians threatening ethnic cleansing – just another day for Palestinians

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