{"id":102436,"date":"2025-07-29T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102436\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:56:10","slug":"no-other-land-collaborator-shot-dead-by-israeli-settler-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102436\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Other Land\u2019 Collaborator Shot Dead By Israeli Settler In West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPalestinian<\/a> activist and community leader Odeh Hathalin (aka Awdah Hathaleen), who worked with directors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham<\/a> on their Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land<\/a>, has been shot dead by an Israeli settler in the Occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a post on X, Israeli journalist and documentarian Abraham reported that Hathalin was shot in the chest on Monday by an Israeli settler. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe director said the assailant had been identified by local residents as Yinon Levi, who is among a group of Israeli settlers operating in the West Bank, who have been sanctioned by the UK and the EU, while Donald Trump rescinded restrictions at the beginning of his presidency this year.<\/p>\n

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An Israeli settler just shot Odeh Hadalin in the lungs, a remarkable activist who helped us film No Other Land in Masafer Yatta. Residents identified Yinon Levi, sanctioned by the EU and US, as the shooter. This is him in the video firing like crazy. pic.twitter.com\/xH1Uo6L1wN<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Yuval Abraham \u05d9\u05d5\u05d1\u05dc \u05d0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4\u05dd (@yuval_abraham) July 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n\tThe post also featured footage of Levi brandishing a gun and firing wildly, although it was not clear whether the images were related to the incident in which Hathalin was killed.<\/p>\n

\n\tIsraeli media reported that Levi was arrested by Israeli police on Monday on suspicion of fatally shooting Hathalin, but was released on house arrest on Tuesday, while investigations continued.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo Other Land, which won the Best Documentary Academy award this year, documents the cycle of destruction and harassment on a collection of hamlets and their Bedouin communities which lie on the Palestinian West Bank side of the 1949 Green Line.<\/p>\n

\n\tTheir future has been at stake since Israel<\/a> declared much of the land they are situated on a live-fire training zone in the 1980s, with their inhabitants coming under further pressure from the construction of illegal Israeli settlements on their doorstep such as Carmel and Ma\u2019on.<\/p>\n

\n\tHathalin has been described as a father of three, English teacher and activist hailing from the village of Umm Al-Kheir, who supported journalists visiting the area and also took part in in the filming of No Other Land.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI can hardly believe it. My dear friend Awdah was slaughtered this evening.He was standing in front of the community center in his village when a settler fired a bullet that pierced his chest and took his life. This is how Israel erases us \u2014 one life at a time,\u201d wrote No Other Land co-director Adra on his X account, attaching an image of them together in Rome. <\/p>\n

\n\tHathalin\u2019s murder comes amid growing violence settler across the entire West Bank in recent months and sparked been widespread condemnation.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrance\u2019s Ministry For Europe and Foreign Affairs put out a statement on Tuesday voicing the country\u2019s \u201cimmense sadness\u201d on learning of \u201cthe murder\u201d of Odeh Hathalin.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFrance condemns this murder in the strongest possible terms, as well as all the deliberate violence perpetrated by extremist settlers against the Palestinian population, which has been increasing across the West Bank, particularly in Kafr Malik and the Christian village of Taybeh in recent weeks,\u201d read the statement. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis violence constitutes an act of terrorism. Settlers have killed more than 30 people since the beginning of 2022. Israeli authorities must take responsibility and immediately punish the perpetrators of this violence, which continues with impunity, and protect Palestinian civilians,\u201d it added. <\/p>\n