Olive trees, often centenarians and millennials, are the best evidence for how deeply rooted is the indigenous Palestinian population in its ancestral land that the Zionists are trying to rape and steal. By uprooting entire olive orchards from around the Palestinian villages they are plundering and ethnically cleansing, Netanyahu's "teenagers" are trying to erase the historic connections that the Palestinians have with their land because it stands in stark contrast to the Zionist lies and propaganda.
In the process, the Fascist Zionazis of Netanyahu and Ben Gvir kill Americans. But that is OK for Trump. Many Americans in the Great American Moron's mind are disposable, as long as the American pimp that he keeps pimping his Arab Gulf working girls (Saudi, UAE, Kuwait etc.) and obeys his Zionist masters.
Never forget that places where Palestinians live are called VILLAGES, whereas places that foreign Zionist rapists are stealing are known as SETTLEMENTS. Can you now see who is the native indigenous owner of the land and who is the foreign rapist and intruder?
Note also how the southern Arkansas moron US ambassador Mike Huckabee explains his reaction to the ongoing genocide he wholeheartedly endorses as follows: "... the US is in regular dialogue with partners about improving stability and security in the West Bank."
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Washington Post journalist hospitalized after Israeli settler attack on Palestinian olive harvest in West Bank
Abeer Salman, Ibrahim Dahman and Oren Liebermann, CNN
Fri, October 16, 2026
American photojournalist Heidi Levine lies on a gurney in the emergency room of the government hospital in the Israeli-occupied city of Ramallah, as she is treated after being attacked by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Abu Falah on Friday. - Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images
A Washington Post photojournalist was hospitalized after Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank attacked her and a group of Palestinians during the annual olive harvest.
Veteran photojournalist Heidi Levine, who was on assignment for The Washington Post, said the group of Palestinians she was with began to retreat when they saw dozens of settlers running toward them.
In a video statement, Levine said settlers kicked her while she was on the ground. "I had my camera bag and my pouch with my passport, and my telephone was on a rope around my neck and they broke that off me, and they broke my cameras off me, and they broke my bag, and they kept kicking me," said Levine, who estimated the attack lasted 10 minutes. "Just absolute craziness, and I didn't see anybody trying to stop it."
"I don't know how a parent can raise such a monster. They're not even humans, and yes, they are Jewish terrorists," Levine added. "And you know what? Sadly, none of them will be prosecuted. I am sure of it."
The Washington Post said Levine was wearing "visible markings clearly identifying her as a journalist" during the attack. "We are outraged by this unwarranted attack on a journalist doing her job and urge a thorough investigation and follow-through from authorities."
Video of the attack showed a group of masked settlers, some armed with clubs, hurling stones at a group of Palestinians, some of whom are also throwing stones. In the background, at least five settlers surround Levine and throw her to the ground, beating her as she covers her face with her hands. The settlers appear to rip away Levine's bag.
Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who witnessed the attack and helped Levine, told CNN's Jim Sciutto on Friday that they had watched settlers on a hilltop put on masks and pick up clubs as Palestinians harvested olives below. "I mean, we watched them prepare for this attack," he said. About an hour into the harvest, he said, the settlers charged down the hill, throwing stones.
Nathaniel said Israeli soldiers then arrived and fired tear gas at Palestinians, forcing him and Levine to retreat. He also described settlers firing guns from the back of a white pickup truck as it raced down the hill.
Levine was caught during the retreat, Nathaniel said. He described seeing five or six settlers surround her and repeatedly beat her with clubs.
At one point, Nathaniel said, an attacker pulled Levine up by her vest while another kicked her back to the ground.
Washington Post journalist hospitalized after Israeli settler attack on Palestinian olive harvest in West Bank
Abeer Salman, Ibrahim Dahman and Oren Liebermann, CNN
Fri, October 16, 2026
American photojournalist Heidi Levine lies on a gurney in the emergency room of the government hospital in the Israeli-occupied city of Ramallah, as she is treated after being attacked by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Abu Falah on Friday. - Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images
A Washington Post photojournalist was hospitalized after Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank attacked her and a group of Palestinians during the annual olive harvest.
Veteran photojournalist Heidi Levine, who was on assignment for The Washington Post, said the group of Palestinians she was with began to retreat when they saw dozens of settlers running toward them.
In a video statement, Levine said settlers kicked her while she was on the ground. "I had my camera bag and my pouch with my passport, and my telephone was on a rope around my neck and they broke that off me, and they broke my cameras off me, and they broke my bag, and they kept kicking me," said Levine, who estimated the attack lasted 10 minutes. "Just absolute craziness, and I didn't see anybody trying to stop it."
"I don't know how a parent can raise such a monster. They're not even humans, and yes, they are Jewish terrorists," Levine added. "And you know what? Sadly, none of them will be prosecuted. I am sure of it."
The Washington Post said Levine was wearing "visible markings clearly identifying her as a journalist" during the attack. "We are outraged by this unwarranted attack on a journalist doing her job and urge a thorough investigation and follow-through from authorities."
Video of the attack showed a group of masked settlers, some armed with clubs, hurling stones at a group of Palestinians, some of whom are also throwing stones. In the background, at least five settlers surround Levine and throw her to the ground, beating her as she covers her face with her hands. The settlers appear to rip away Levine's bag.
Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who witnessed the attack and helped Levine, told CNN's Jim Sciutto on Friday that they had watched settlers on a hilltop put on masks and pick up clubs as Palestinians harvested olives below. "I mean, we watched them prepare for this attack," he said. About an hour into the harvest, he said, the settlers charged down the hill, throwing stones.
Nathaniel said Israeli soldiers then arrived and fired tear gas at Palestinians, forcing him and Levine to retreat. He also described settlers firing guns from the back of a white pickup truck as it raced down the hill.
Levine was caught during the retreat, Nathaniel said. He described seeing five or six settlers surround her and repeatedly beat her with clubs.
At one point, Nathaniel said, an attacker pulled Levine up by her vest while another kicked her back to the ground.
"I was worried that she was going to be killed," Nathaniel said.
He credited young Palestinian men with helping him reach Levine, saying they "stepped up and provided cover."
"If those young Palestinian men had not thrown those rocks, Heidi could be dead," he said. "And I would I would not have been able to get to her."
Nathaniel, who visited Levine in the hospital after the attack, said she had a broken rib, a broken vertebra and a severe finger injury requiring surgery.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said it was treating two people after they were beaten by settlers: a 63-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man. The assault is part of a wave of settler attacks at the start of the Palestinian olive harvest that residents reported across the area. Last year's olive harvest saw a surge of such incidents across the West Bank as settlers attacked Palestinians and prevented them from accessing their land.
Levine was rushed to the Ramallah Government Hospital after the attack, where she was in stable condition, according to the Foreign Press Association (FPA). Photos show Levine's hand and leg wrapped in bandages as she rests in a hospital bed.
The FPA condemned the attack and called on the head of the Israeli military's Central Command, which governs operations in the West Bank, to "stop making excuses and do its job of protecting civilians from these violent mobs."
Israeli settlers attacked Levine in Abu Falah on Friday. - Andrey X/Reuters
Levine was helped to safety after the attack. - Andrey X/Reuters
In a statement, the FPA said, "This is the latest in a long line of violent attacks by Israeli settlers against journalists and other civilians in the occupied West Bank. Yet our repeated calls for action to confront this lawlessness have been ignored by Israeli authorities."
Additional videos from the scene show a man with a bloodied face after the attack, as well as flame pouring out of a burning car with Palestinian license plates. Another video shows Israeli soldiers blocking the road. One soldier films with his phone; a second hurls what appears to be a smoke grenade as a man begs him, "Please don't do it!"
Israel Police opened an investigation after receiving reports of the attack. In a statement, police said they "view any act of violence with great severity, particularly when it involves members of the media carrying out their work."
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they would examine "all circumstances" around the incident. "Attempts to incite friction between populations undermine security in the area," the IDF said. "Attacks and violence against innocent civilians are grave and unacceptable acts."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has repeatedly downplayed settler violence as the actions of a rogue group, tried to cast doubt on the attack, saying in a statement on X that "serious questions remain." He said that Israel "unequivocally condemns violence against anyone," without issuing any censure of the masked and armed settlers who carried out the attack.
In sharp contrast to Netanyahu, his main rival in the upcoming elections, Gadi Eisenkot, called the attack on Levine "unacceptable" and said these acts "stain an entire nation."
A US Embassy spokesperson said the US was in regular dialogue with partners about improving stability and security in the West Bank.
"We condemn criminal violence by any party in the West Bank and call for investigations, arrests, and convictions of those responsible," the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the US State Department said it had reached out to The Washington Post to offer consular assistance.
Mustafa Barghouti, head of the Palestinian National Initiative, said on X that "gangs of Israeli terrorist settlers" launched an attack on the village of Abu Falah, where Palestinians were preparing to harvest their olives.
"In full view of the cameras, the settlers set olive trees on fire, pelt Palestinian farmers with stones, and fired live ammunition, resorting to every possible form of terror and intimidation to prevent Palestinians from harvesting their own olive trees," said Barghouti.
CNN's Jim Sciutto contributed to this story.
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[Fanatic ultra-religious extremist] Israeli rabbi ruling on stolen Palestinian olives prompts uproar
Mohammad Mansour
Sat, October 17, 2026
Prominent Israeli Rabbi Dov Lior issued a Jewish religious ruling [equivalent to a radical Muslim imam's fatwa] on Friday permitting settlers to steal olives from Palestinian orchards in the occupied West Bank.
Lior's ruling claims that Palestinian landowners who could not access their olives during the harvest season due to Israeli restrictions have been sufficiently compensated in the years they had access to the fruit. According to the ruling, Jews are permitted to pick these olives to claim ownership of the Palestinian land.
Lior, born in Poland in 1933, went as far as classifying the theft of olives from Palestinian farms as an "additional virtue", as settler pogroms and Israeli occupation continue in the West Bank. [The man is an illegal Polish migrant terrorist and criminal. He should go back to Poland. He doesn't belong to Palestine, nor does Palestine belong to him.]
He added that settlers should "conquer the land" far from Jewish communities in order to publicly "demonstrate our ownership" and follow biblical commandment.
"The Jewish people have never given up on the Land of Israel, as we express in our prayers every single day," the ruling continues. "The Arabs never purchased the land from the Jewish people or from any individual Jew, and therefore it is stolen land in their hands… They never bought it in any way and it remained under the ownership of the Jewish people."
The olive press in the town of Qusra operates on the first day of the olive harvest season on October 9, 2026 in Nablus, West Bank [Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Getty Images]
The ruling coincides with another wave of settler pogroms against Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season. On Friday. at least 19 people were injured in 34 attacks by the Israeli military and settlers on Palestinians harvesting their crops across the West Bank.
An American photojournalist working for The Washington Post was assaulted by settlers while covering the daily violence, and five vehicles were torched.
Many Palestinian farmers have been unable to access their crops due to Israeli restrictions and the dangers from the settlers.
While settler pogroms are not exceptional, they come weeks before Israeli elections, with a push by far-right parties to gain the support of settlers and their supporters. But not all Jewish religious leaders backed the call to steal Palestinian olives.
Religious backlash
Rabbis from the religious council of the Gush Etzion settlements published a letter calling the illegal harvesting of Palestinian crops theft, blasphemy, and a moral defect.
Tzohar, an organisation of 800 orthodox rabbis, said in a statement that only the state has the authority to confiscate property. As long as the state recognises Arab ownership of the olives, they belong to them, it added.
Mamoun Abu Amer, an analyst on Israeli politics, told Al Jazeera that there could be political reasons behind the religious groups' rejection of Rabbi Dov Lior's comments.
"The position of the other rabbis who rejected this call might be a move driven by political motive and pressure from entities within the government to give the impression that these are anomalous voices that do not represent the general opinion of the settlers.
"The Israeli government is trying to portray that those who carry out these riots are a limited-number group that does not represent public opinion in the settlements, and that the settlers are peaceful, good, and law-abiding, and that the issue is confined to the 'Hilltop Youth' boys who commit these crimes," he explained.
Rabbi Dov Lior holds immense influence among hardline settler groups, such as the Hilltop Youth, who fiercely back his hardline religious decrees that oppose any territorial compromise with Palestinians.
He is also a prominent figure within Israel's Religious Zionist movement and serves as the spiritual guide for the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
"Ben-Gvir relies on the religious rulings of Rabbi Dov Lior, which rely on biblical texts and the Book of Deuteronomy," Abu Amer noted. He claimed that Rabbi Lior adopts the most extreme interpretations in the Jewish religion.
"There is an important matter, which is that Ben-Gvir competes via the TikTok platform, propaganda, and populist rhetoric, and this is a rhetoric that serves him and brings him votes, given the environment and general atmosphere in Israel after the events of October 7, as there is a 'market for extremism' in the Israeli society," Abu Amer added.
Knesset member Gilad Kariv of the left-wing Democrats Party criticised Lior, accusing him and his followers of dragging Israel into a flood of moral vice.
"Whoever stands on the sidelines in this issue joins the camp of Rabbi Dov Lior and his criminals," Kariv said.
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