Israel/Palestine

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