"We are very upset by those images and what we are seeing. We have asked Israel in the past and will continue to ask them to put a stop to this," Rubio told reporters on Saturday, according to Reuters.
The Washington Post photographer has been hospitalized after the attack. The settlers, who were armed with bottles and slingshots, “kicked me for about ten minutes while I was trying to hold on to my cameras and my bag,” Levine previously said.
Earlier in the day, the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, demanded that the perpetrators be prosecuted and imprisoned for what he called "an act of terrorism carried out by masked cowards."
