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Today marks three years of genocide in Gaza.
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You would think it would be beneath @haaretzcom to publish vile genocide denying drivel like this
'Genocide doesn't happen because everyone says it was a genocide' haaretz.com/middle-east-news…
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Holding a peace summit doesn't mean peace has been achieved or that a ceasefire is being upheld.
So why is @CNN asking why Gaza is “at a standstill” instead of asking why the violence hasn't stopped?
Holding a peace summit doesn't mean peace has been achieved or that a ceasefire is being upheld.
So why is @CNN asking why Gaza is “at a standstill” instead of asking why the violence hasn't stopped?
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“Those who attacked”
Who are they?
Heidi Levine, photojournalist for @wapo suffered serious injuries from vicious & cowardly attack. Heidi is US Citizen, clear ID as journalist. Details of who under investigation, but those who attacked unarmed reporter should spend YRS in prison. We have called for a full investigation, arrest, and prosecution to the fullest extent of the law to whoever participated in this. Attacking a female photographer is despicable act of terror carried out by masked cowards. Dishonorable act of senseless violence.
"An attack on Post photographer Heidi Levine is a reminder of the grave risks journalists take to show the world the truth."
Read the latest from the Editorial Board: wapo.st/4yu2vxM
Zero coverage in Western media. They’re still pretending like nothing is happening in Gaza.
Reports: Two children among at least eight killed by Israeli fire in Gaza haaretz.com/gaza/2026-10-18/…
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Israeli settler terrorism against Palestinians, international observers and journalists in the occupied West Bank is out of control.
Israel denies what we can all see, while arming the terrorists and sending its forces to back them up in an official campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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This will get overshadowed by the attack on an American journalist, but half an hour after Heidi was beaten, the IDF shot a Palestinian man simply standing inside his own village.
Then the soldiers pointed an assault rifle at the paramedics trying to help the victim.
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Gaza made every journalist a legitimate target. What was allowed to happen to Palestinian journalists - the targeted slaughter - made every single journalist in the world less safe. A passport or an institutional affiliation won’t matter and this is a hell of our making because we collectively as the institution of journalism didn’t consider Palestinians our colleagues, as humans worthy of protection & life.
“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.
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The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat @washingtonpost journalist Heidi Levine nearly to death. Then the IDF shot a Palestinian bystander, and aimed their guns and shoved the paramedics who were trying to treat him. All of this documented.
Earlier today, IDF and Israel Border Police forces were dispatched to an area adjacent to Khirbet Abu Falah, following a report of a violent confrontation. Foreign media personnel were present at the scene and a female journalist was injured during the confrontation. All details of the incident will be examined. Upon arriving to the scene, the forces acted to disperse the confrontation using riot dispersal means.
At another location where the confrontation took place, IDF soldiers initially fired warning shots into the air and then fired toward a suspect who ran toward them, carrying a sharp object and posed a threat to them. The confrontation was dispersed.
Israeli Police forces and forensic investigators from the Judea and Samaria District will enter the area with IDF security to collect findings and evidence, as well as take testimonies.
Violence against innocent civilians is a grave and intolerable phenomenon that requires a coordinated, multi-agency response. The IDF will work together with the relevant authorities to eradicate this phenomenon.
The IDF strongly condemns this incident. Attempts to incite friction between populations undermine security in the area.
UNICEF published a statement yesterday about the continued killing of children in Gaza.
Where is the media reporting?
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"Allegedly assaulted."
It's literally on video.
The Prime Minister’s Office:
The facts surrounding the confrontation near Abu Falah, during which Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was allegedly assaulted, remain unclear and are under investigation.
Israel unequivocally condemns violence against anyone—Jews, Arabs, Christians or journalists. Those responsible will be held accountable.
But serious questions remain. Reports indicate some 200 Arabs and far-left activists confronted approximately 40 Israeli youths. Footage shows masked individuals on both sides hurling objects, amid reports of fireworks fired at Jewish youths. Other footage appears to show Levine knocked down and immediately helped to her feet by the same unidentified individual.
The investigation must establish the facts, including who initiated the violence.
We will not allow disputed incidents to be exploited to demonize the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.
The facts must determine the conclusions. Not the headlines.
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Masked Israeli settlers attacked a delegation of European diplomats and public figures, as well as Palestinian olive harvesters, in the Christian village of Taybeh near Ramallah on Saturday.
The attackers also smashed a window of a Belgian consular vehicle, the reports said.
🔗Read more here: haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…
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Over the past 24 hours, Israeli bombs burnt a mother in Gaza in front of her daughter, and settler terrorists set fire to a mosque in the WB.
Seen any of it on your evening news? Of course not.
Now imagine the coverage if Hamas had done this to a synagogue & an Israeli mother.
Reports: Israeli settlers burn mosque, attack olive harvesters in West Bank haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…
I’ve seen more outrage from Western media and journalists today—for one of their peers being brutally attacked by Israeli settler terrorists—than I have in the last three years as Israel hunted down journalists in Gaza.
Because the journalists in Gaza are Palestinian.
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What happened to Heidi Levine was vicious, disgusting and unconscionable. It happened against a backdrop of impunity for attacks on journalists in Palestine. And it happened against a backdrop of silence from the Western media establishment as Israel hunted down and slaughtered an entire generation of Palestinian journalists. The implicit message to the settlers, who are supported and protected by the Israeli military and state, was clear: it's open season on journalists.





































