Armed Israeli settlers beat Jaafar Ashtiyeh, the photographer who took this image, in the presence of Israeli soldiers, hospitalising him, as he covered the settler violence against the olive farmers.

Asira al-Qibliya, West Bank

Palestinian farmers try to extinguish fires on their land after Israeli soldiers fired teargas at them as they harvested their olives, resulting in the dry fields catching fire, in the village of Asira al-Qibliya. Armed Israeli settlers beat Jaafar Ashtiyeh, the photographer who took this image, in the presence of Israeli soldiers, hospitalising him, as he covered the settler violence against the olive farmers. Ashtiyeh, a 58-year-old veteran photographer for AFP in Palestine, was assaulted by a group of settlers despite him being marked as pressPhotograph: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images

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[Palestinian photographer] Jaafar Ashtiyeh was covering violence against [Palestinian] olive farmers when [Israeli] settlers set upon him with the butts of their rifles   

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/06/israeli-settlers-beat-press-photographer-as-soldiers-watch-in-west-bank

Israel was the world’s leading killer of journalists in 2025, and has killed at least 225 journalists in Lebanon and Gaza, according to the UN Human Rights Office.

Violence has flared in recent months in the West Bank with near-daily attacks, thefts or vandalism by Israeli settlers against Palestinians.