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Settlers attack reporters, Palestinians harvesting olives in West Bank By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters Two Palestinians, two news photographers and a peace activist were lightly injured yesterday in clashes with settlers in two separate incidents in the West Bank. In the first incident, settlers clashed with a Palestinian family and peace activists picking olives in Hebron yesterday morning. Advertisement Witnesses and Reuters crew said the settlers punched and kicked two news photographers and a British woman picking olives. The settlers then threw stones, injuring a Palestinian, the Reuters and European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) photographers, and British peace activist Janet Benvie. IDF and police troops were called to separate the groups and permitted the settlers to leave the scene. The scuffles in the West Bank were the latest in a series of efforts by settlers to disrupt an annual harvest critical to Palestinians' livelihoods. The IDF prohibited olive harvesting in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron last Wednesday due to mass Sukkot prayers in the area, but allowed the harvest to continue yesterday. Reuters television footage showed four settlers heading into the grove and punching and kicking the photographers. Benvie sustained a scratch on her lip after a scuffle with a settler. "When I went to get the camera, one of the settlers punched me in the face," Benvie said. Another violent incident took place yesterday afternoon when settlers in the Elon Moreh settlement area started throwing stones at a Palestinian family harvesting olives near Azmut village. The grove owner was injured and taken to the village for medical treatment, while the settlers damaged and ripped the family's olive sacks, security sources said. The Hebron Jewish settlers committee demanded that the police stop left-wing activists and anarchists from creating provocations in the town and demanded that the IDF issue restraining orders against them. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Saudi peace plan Barak says it may be time to pursue an overall peace deal for the region. Wiesel on Ahmadinejad Nobel laureate says president's U.N. speech shows world hasn't learned from Holocaust.

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