<p>Mike Huckabee calls for arrest and prosecution of those responsible as Heidi Levine, 63, recovers in hospital in Israel</p><p>The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has denounced the settler attack that left the Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine badly beaten and needing surgery as a “despicable act of terror” and called for the arrest and prosecution of those responsible.</p><p>Levine, an award-winning journalist who lives in Israel, was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/israeli-settlers-attack-olive-farmers-west-bank-washington-post-journalist-heidi-levine">set upon last Friday</a> by masked Israeli settlers who used clubs and other weapons to attack Palestinian people attempting to harvest their olives in occupied <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/west-bank">West Bank</a> towns.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/18/us-ambassador-israel-mike-huckabee-west-bank-settler-attack-photojournalist-heidi-levine">Continue reading...</a>