The United States wants Israel to do more to deter attacks committed by settlers in the West Bank, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday. “We’re very disturbed by those images and what we’re seeing,” Rubio said. “We’ve asked the Israelis and continue to ask them to crack down on that stuff.” For the latest updates on the Israel-Palestine conflict, visit our dedicated page. His comments to reporters came after the widespread dissemination of video showing multiple individuals attacking Heidi Levine, an American photojournalist with the Washington Post.
Levine was one of at least two people injured in the Friday incident, which took place as Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian civilians. European diplomats and a French mayor also were attacked in the occupied West Bank, Belgium’s foreign minister said. The US State Department, Rubio said, has inquired about the event that included Levine’s attack. Rubio, who spoke to reporters before boarding a flight to Uzbekistan, said he expects to hear back from the US Embassy in Jerusalem by Sunday.
Israeli settlers in the West Bank have been involved in at least 170 attacks on Palestinians since September 27, around the start of the annual olive harvest, according to Yesh Din, an Israeli settlements monitoring group. Read more: Netanyahu office alleges ‘smear’ campaign against Israel over settler attacks Advertisement Advertisement
Al Arabiya English reports Marco Rubio's call for Israel to crack down on settler violence, names Israeli settlers as the attackers of Palestinian civilians, and says plainly that the attacks took place in the occupied West Bank. The one weakness is a single sentence that calls the people who attacked the photojournalist Heidi Levine only "multiple individuals". The next sentence places her injury inside a settler attack, so a reader is not misled about who was responsible.
Hides who did it
Minor
“multiple individuals attacking Heidi Levine”
Why this matters
The words "multiple individuals" describe the people who beat the Washington Post photojournalist without saying who they were.
The impression it gives
From this sentence alone, a reader is not told who attacked Levine.
The context
Other coverage of the same incident says plainly that settlers attacked her, and the outlet's own report the day before named Israeli settlers as the attackers in the same village incident. The article's next sentence partly closes the gap by placing the attack inside a settler attack on Palestinian civilians.