Israel releases nearly all suspects in settler attacks on US journalist, European diplomats to house arrest

The 10 suspects were detained after the United ‌States, Israel's closest ally, called for a crackdown on settler violence and for arrests to be made after the attack on a US journalist. JERUSALEM: Nine of the 10 suspects arrested ‌in an investigation into militant settler attacks on a US journalist and European diplomats have been released from custody and placed under house arrest, a law ​firm that represents settlers said. Masked Israeli settlers were filmed last week assaulting Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine, who was covering a Palestinian olive harvest in the occupied West Bank.

French, Belgian and Polish diplomats and a French mayor were attacked by masked