Israeli settlers assault Palestinians in West Bank throughout olive harvest

The BBC has witnessed Israeli settlers assault Palestinians and set hearth to olive bushes within the occupied West Bank.

Several dozens of settlers wearing black charged down a hill close to an outpost – unlawful underneath global regulation – to a area the place Palestinians and activists had been harvesting olives. They torched a few dozen bushes and hurled stones from slingshots.

Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine, who was on the scene, was taken to hospital the place she advised reporters she “received jumped” and described being kicked on the bottom.

The UN says the previous two weeks have already seen extra assaults by violent Israeli settlers than throughout your entire harvest season final 12 months. It says this 12 months ranges of settler violence have reached an all-time excessive.

The BBC’s Middle East Correspondent Lucy Williamson stories.