West Bank settlers attack AFP journalists

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Israeli settlers attacked AFP journalists reporting on tensions in the West Bank near Bethlehem, resulting in at least five injuries. The reporters were covering solidarity visits with Palestinians facing harassment from settlers blocking local roads.

Israeli settlers in the West Bank on Tuesday attacked AFP journalists reporting on tension with Palestinians, in violence that left at least five people injured, the reporters and medics said. A three-person team from the international news agency had travelled to the village of Jannatah near Bethlehem to report on Israeli activists who conduct solidarity visits with Palestinians facing harassment by Israeli settlers, who recently blocked a road in the area.