{"id":50887,"date":"2026-10-18T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/us-ambassador-to-israel-denounces-west-bank-settler-attack-on-us-photojournalist\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:46:02","slug":"us-ambassador-to-israel-denounces-west-bank-settler-attack-on-us-photojournalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/us-ambassador-to-israel-denounces-west-bank-settler-attack-on-us-photojournalist\/","title":{"rendered":"US ambassador to Israel denounces West Bank settler attack on US photojournalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Huckabee calls for arrest and prosecution of those responsible as Heidi Levine, 63, recovers in hospital in Israel<\/p>\n<p>The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has denounced the settler attack that left the Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine badly beaten and needing surgery as a \u201cdespicable act of terror\u201d and called for the arrest and prosecution of those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Levine, an award-winning journalist who lives in Israel, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/16\/israeli-settlers-attack-olive-farmers-west-bank-washington-post-journalist-heidi-levine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set upon last Friday<\/a> by masked Israeli settlers who used clubs and other weapons to attack Palestinian people attempting to harvest their olives in occupied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/west-bank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Bank<\/a> towns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/18\/us-ambassador-israel-mike-huckabee-west-bank-settler-attack-photojournalist-heidi-levine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Huckabee calls for arrest and prosecution of those responsible as Heidi Levine, 63, recovers in hospital in Israel The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has denounced the settler attack that left the Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine badly beaten and needing surgery as a \u201cdespicable act of terror\u201d and called for the arrest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 18:25:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}