US Ambassador to Israel: The attack on the American journalist is a “terrorist act”

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The US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, on Saturday called on the Israeli authorities to pursue and imprison those responsible for the “terrorist act” that targeted an American photojournalist working for the Washington Post newspaper.

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Huckabee did not mention the settlers as the aggressors. The US ambassador had previously criticized attacks targeting Americans that were attributed to settlers.

He said in his post: “The identity of those responsible is still under investigation, but those who attacked an unarmed journalist should spend years in prison.”

He added, "We called for a comprehensive investigation, and to arrest and prosecute everyone who participated in this attack to the fullest extent of the law."

Heidi Levin, an experienced photojournalist, was injured on Friday by Israeli settlers who beat her while she was covering acts of violence targeting Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank, according to her personal testimony and the statements of witnesses and doctors.

She was taken to hospital after suffering fractures in her back vertebrae, and it was reported on Saturday that her condition was moderate.

Levin was covering the olive harvest season near the towns of Turmus Aya and Khirbet Abu Falah.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday questioned the identity of those responsible for the attack, considering that Palestinians or activists from the "far left" might be behind it, according to his claim.