US visit after settler attacks: Officials go to Taybeh; violence keeps rising

US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Riley Barnes and US Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch, visit the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh near Ramallah, a day after Israeli militant settlers attacked a French mayor and European diplomats during olive harvest, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. US diplomats visited the Christian Palestinian town of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday after masked Israeli settlers attacked European diplomats and a French mayor near the village a day earlier. The visit came amid a surge in settler violence across the territory, with a US photojournalist also hospitalised after being assaulted while covering an olive harvest.Riley Barnes, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour, and Brian Burch, US ambassador to the Holy See, visited the Latin Convent church in Taybeh. They were also expected to meet members of the local Christian community.The visit followed Saturday's attack on Belgian, French and Polish diplomats, a French mayor and Palestinian civilians near Taybeh. On Friday, Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was taken to hospital after being assaulted ...