US ambassador to Israel condemns settler attack on US journalist, and other Mideast news

The U.S. ambassador to Israel condemned a settler attack on an American journalist that left her needing surgery, in the latest incident of settler violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.Meanwhile, two helicopter pilots were killed Sunday in Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen, which a Saudi military spokesperson said was due to a technical malfunction.Here is the latest news from the Middle East. Read our full coverage here.U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee sharply condemned settler violence during an olive harvest in the West Bank that injured several Palestinians and Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine as “a despicable act of terror carried out by masked cowards.” In a post late Saturday on X, he called for “a full investigation, arrest, and prosecution to the fullest extent of the law to whoever participated in this.”Levine was seriously injured in the attack Friday in the West Bank village of Abu Falah. Israeli police are also investigating an attack by Israeli settlers on European diplomats Saturday in another West Bank village. Settler violence against Palestinians has soared this year and spiked further in recent weeks as Israel plans to hold elections O...