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Eugene

(66,229 posts) Mon Aug 11, 2025, 12:57 PM Aug 11

Video appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist is killed as an Israeli settler opens fire

Source: Associated Press

Video appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist is killed as an Israeli settler opens fire

By SAM MEDNICK
Updated 9:33 AM EDT, August 11, 2025

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — New video footage appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli settler fired toward him during a confrontation with unarmed Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month.

The video released Sunday by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, shows Israeli settler Yinon Levi firing a gun toward the person filming. The footage cuts but the camera keeps rolling as the person moans in pain.

B’Tselem says it obtained the video from the family of Awdah Hathaleen, 31, an activist, English teacher and father of three who was shot dead on July 28, and who they said had filmed it. Levi, who was shown firing his gun twice in video shot by another witness and obtained by The Associated Press, was briefly detained and then released from house arrest by an Israeli court, which cited lack of evidence.

The shooting occurred in Umm al-Khair, a village that has long weathered settler violence in an area profiled in the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land.” Settler attacks on Palestinians have spiked since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, as have attacks by Palestinian militants.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-west-bank-settler-violence-oscar-film-40e0a53e89d2a47b6a12c0825d5098f2

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Source: The Guardian

Palestinian activist killed by settler filmed his shooting, footage shows

B’Tselem publishes film showing killing of Awdah Hathaleen after suspect released by court over ‘weakened’ evidence

Peter Beaumont
Mon 11 Aug 2025 14.26 BST
Last modified on Mon 11 Aug 2025 17.16 BST

Awdah Hathaleen, the prominent Palestinian activist who was killed late last month by an extremist Jewish settler in the West Bank, filmed the moment he was shot, newly released video footage reveals.

Hathaleen, who worked on the filming of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, which examined settler violence against the Palestinian community of Masafer Yatta, was killed by Yinon Levi, a settler who was already under sanctions in the UK and EU for violent acts against Palestinians.

The footage – released by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem – appears to offer clear evidence of Levi’s direct involvement in the killing of Hathaleen, an English teacher and activist resident in Umm al-Khair in the south Hebron hills, on 28 July, in an incident that sparked international outrage.

Levi was arrested over the killing but quickly released by a court after a ruling that the evidence he had fired at Hathaleen had “weakened”.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/11/awdah-hathaleen-shooting-video-west-bank

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