Israeli settlers beat Palestinians and a U.S. photojournalist in West Bank attacks

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians as they were harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring several people including an American photojournalist.

The Washington Post said photographer Heidi Levine was reporting in the West Bank, wearing a protective vest clearly marked as "press," when she was beaten.

"Today I was brutally attacked," Levine said in a video filmed at a hospital. "We saw in the distance, in the hilltop, I would say at least 50 masked men, slingshots. And when they came running down, I was attacked, pushed to the ground." She said "they just kept kicking me and kicking me." They also tore her cameras and phone off her.

She said medical workers rushed her in an ambulance to a hospital. Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray said in a statement Levine has received medical care and is safe.