Israeli police release settler accused of killing Palestinian activist

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1. >Hathaleen was shot to death on Monday night during a confrontation between settlers driving a bulldozer in the village of Umm al-Khair in the occupied West Bank and residents of the town. A video appears to show Levi firing his gun wildly and then people screaming as Hathaleen, standing a distance away in the town centre, collapsed.

   >Levi was released from custody by a court on Tuesday and placed under three days of house arrest, which ends tomorrow and allows him to roam free.

   >Despite the release of Levi, Hathaleen’s family is still struggling to recover his body from Israeli police so that they can hold his funeral.

   >Israeli police said they would not release Hathaleen’s body until his family agreed to 10 conditions, including limiting the funeral to 15 people and burying his body outside his birth village, according to a lawyer representing the family.

   >“The idea is that the police want the funeral to be really small and quiet, so that it is like it never happened and nobody will come,” said Karin Wind, who has reviewed the conditions and is communicating with the police on behalf of the family.

   >“Fifteen people – this would mean basically half his siblings and children couldn’t even attend,” said Salem.

2. The details are somehow worse than the headline. Signing paperwork agreeing to a quiet funeral in exchange for the body – sounds like a deleted scene from District 9.

3. “We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.”

   Settlers are **part of the plan**. They have always been the driving force for this whole settler-colonial project. They are at the frontiers, doing the Zionist governtment’s work for them, as the Genocide Granny keeps saying. They are making the Zionist Manifest Destiny, approved and desired by all three branches of their government, a reality. They are always in the thick of it. They are heroes who put their lives on the line, that is, for a couple of minutes until they pull out their **government issued assault rifles** (eta: as well as other military equipment) and the backup (aka IOF) shows up. They give the Zionists a reason to keep going; another piece of land to steal, another village to burn, another Palestinian to kill.

   **Settlers and bulldozers** are an inextricable part of the Israeli culture, at least the parts not stolen from Palestinians. This needs to end. Not only that, many of them need to be held accountable and almost all of them need to go through **deprogramming**.

   From the river to the sea, Palestine MUST be free. One democratic Palestine for all is the only just, humane and acceptable solution.

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