Israeli police detained 10 people on Monday in a rare operation against settlers in the occupied West Bank. The action followed weekend attacks that injured a US photojournalist and a group of European diplomats and Palestinians. Authorities linked the detainees to the assaults on foreigners and the building of an illegal outpost.

US photojournalist Heidi Levine was covering the olive harvest in a Palestinian village near Ramallah on Friday when a group of masked men knocked her down, kicked and beat her. She suffered four broken vertebrae, a broken rib, a finger injury that needed surgery and multiple lacerations. Speaking from her hospital bed in Ramallah on Monday, Levine told the BBC she had been “practically, basically lynched by a gang of Jewish settlers.”

The next day, militants armed with sticks and iron bars attacked European diplomats and Palestinians harvesting olives near the town of Taybeh. They assaulted a French mayor, smashed the window of an official vehicle and seriously injured a young Palestinian man. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later referred to an “alleged attack” on Levine and “unproven allegations” regarding the diplomats, despite video and witness accounts.

Police released footage of the raid on Monday morning. A court later extended the detention of six men linked to the attacks on foreigners for three to four days. The incidents prompted strong responses from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, European governments and Washington Post editor Matt Murray.

Israeli human rights group Yesh Din recorded 561 incidents of settler and soldier violence against Palestinians in the three weeks from 27 September, an average of more than 26 a day. Its executive director, Ziv Stahl, said the response only came after attacks on foreign nationals. Levine noted that body armour and a helmet had limited her injuries and described Netanyahu’s comments as “a big slap on my face.”