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Israeli settlers beat AFP photographer covering violence in West Bank

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Jaafar Ashityeh, 58, was attacked while reporting the same story — settler attacks during the Palestinian olive harvest — last year, too.

What the coverage shows

All three outlets frame the story around settler violence in the West Bank, and both The Guardian US and Washington Post specifically foreground the attack on photographer Jaafar Ashtiyeh/Ashtiyeh while he was reporting. The Guardian US is the only one to stress that soldiers watched during the assault, while Democracy Now! instead centers Palestinian activist Issa Amro’s account of trying to stop a different settler attack and being detained for seven hours. Washington Post also runs a separate item on broader settler land-grabbing and expansion, not just the photographer episode.

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