Awdah Hathaleen a Palestinian community leader who was a consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary \u201cNo Other Land,\u201d died Monday after an Israeli settler allegedly shot him to death in the occupied West Bank. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo Other Land\u201d filmmaker and subject Yuval Abraham announced his colleague\u2019s death Monday, writing on X (formerly Twitter),<\/a> \u201c[Hathaleen] just died. Murdered.\u201d Two hours prior, Abraham shared video<\/a> of the confrontation that led to Hathaleen\u2019s death. In the video, the settler in a dark shirt can be seen shoving people in a group, pulling out and pointing his pistol in their direction. The video shows him firing at people off-screen. <\/p>\n In the caption of his video, Abraham writes that the settler \u201cjust shot\u201d Hathaleen in the lungs and identified the shooter as Yinon Levi. Levi was among the 13 hard-line Israeli settlers targeted last year <\/a>by international sanctions for their alleged attacks and harassment of Palestinians in the West Bank. President Trump lifted U.S. sanctions against the Israelis<\/a> in January. <\/p>\n \u201cThis is him in the video firing like crazy,\u201d Abraham tweeted. <\/p>\n The incident occurred in in the village of Umm al-Khair, in the Masafer Yatta region that was the focus of \u201cNo Other Land.\u201d Hathaleen was rushed to a hospital in Israel, where he was pronounced dead, his family confirmed to the New York Times<\/a>. He was 31.<\/p>\n According to multiple reports, Israeli police said they responded to the scene, detaining and arresting an Israeli citizen. Police did not identify the detainee they took in for questioning, and claimed \u201cterrorists hurled rocks toward\u201d the nearby Israeli settlement of Carmel, according to CNN<\/a>. Additionally, the Israeli military detained five Palestinians and two foreign tourists for their alleged involvement in Monday\u2019s incident, the BBC<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n The IDF did not immediately respond to The Times\u2019 request for confirmation on Tuesday. <\/p>\n \u201cNo Other Land\u201d filmmaker and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra on Tuesday tweeted video showing the attack from another angle<\/a>. In this video, Levi is seen with the pistol in his right hand, smacking a person in front of him. The clip also sees Levi raising his right arm and firing off-screen. Adra says Levi \u201cfires the bullet that took\u201d Hathaleen\u2019s life, adding in his caption that \u201cthe apartheid court decided to release him to house arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n On Monday, Adra tweeted<\/a> he was in disbelief about his friend\u2019s death: \u201cMy dear friend Adwah was slaughtered this evening. He was standing in front of the community center in his village where 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<\/p>\n On Instagram<\/a>, the Center for Jewish Nonviolence described Hathaleen as a well-known community figure: \u201can activist, artist, and teacher in the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta.\u201d The activist group reminded Instagram followers that last month Hathaleen and another Palestinian man were denied entry, detained overnight and deported back to the West Bank<\/a> when they arrived at the San Francisco International Airport. <\/p>\n \u201cSo many in our community knew Awdah, and gained so much by learning from him, and being his friend,\u201d the organization said, concluding its statement with a call to action. \u201cMay Awdah\u2019s memory be a revolution. May we see justice for Awdah, and justice for all Palestinians, within our lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Israeli settlers brutalized another member of the Oscar-winning \u201cNo Other Land\u201d team. In March, Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was beat in his head and stomach by settlers<\/a> in the village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta area. Palestinian residents said the settlers, some wearing masks, some carrying guns and some wearing military uniforms, attacked as residents were breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to the Associated Press<\/a>. Israeli military and police forces detained the filmmaker on suspicion of hurling rocks at IDF and police. <\/p>\n He was released a day later, with bruises on his face and blood on his clothes. As he recalled hearing \u201cthe voice of soldiers laughing at me,\u201d his wife said she felt the international attention surrounding \u201cNo Other Land\u2019s\u201d Oscar win<\/a> prompted settlers to \u201cattack us more.\u201d The harrowing documentary , which became the subject of controversy in Miami Beach earlier this year<\/a>, documents Israel\u2019s demolition of Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta and the displacement of their communities in favor of Israeli military training grounds.<\/p>\n Since Israel launched its war against Hamas nearly two years ago, more than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed, Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry said Tuesday<\/a>. At least 77 were killed over the past 24 hours, most while seeking food.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n