Widely Condemned Israeli Settler Arrested In Slaying Of Palestinian Activist
An Israeli settlement approved by Biden administration was arrested in the murder of a well -known Palestinian activist in the West Bank.
Local sales points and New York Times Report On Tuesday, the police called Yinon Levi in the Fire of the West Bank Village Umm Al-Khair, a journalist from the Village of the West Bank in the academy award-winning “other land” documentary.
Levi with US sanctions REMOVED By President Donald Trump in January, The police were detained and released under house arrest. No official accusation against him has not yet been brought to him, Guardian reported.
On Monday, he set out with the Palestinians, Levi and a colleague found a way to expand Israel’s Carmel settlement. taken in the video And he showed him that he had fired him many times. Inside expressions Levi’s lawyer, reported by The Times, said that his client fired into the air, and that he was acting in defense of the Palestinians in response to the throwing of stones to him.
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Hathalaen was not involved in the dispute, and when the street bullet was shot by his cousin and another activist, he stood in a community center about 150 meters away. Told The Times.
Levi was one of the four Israeli, where President Joe Biden brought financial sanctions last year, and said that he said, “If they did not leave their homes and destroyed their properties if they did not leave their homes, they threatened them with additional violence”.
The movement removed Levi from the international economic system and froze the Israeli bank accounts.
Refused to do any mistake ABC news In that case.
“When we first learned this, we thought it was a joke. Why do you care about us?” he said.
“Anarchists come to our lands and provide provocations. They disturb the soldiers, attack us, dogs and sheep and document for provocation,” he continued.
With the permission of Awdah Hathaleen
Levi Sanction was applied by the European Union Last year, “a pro -excessive settler, which was responsible for serious human rights violations against Palestinians.
Hathalaen, who documented forcibly deportation and destruction in the West Bank, was mourned by filmmakers in the “other Land”, which won the Oscar for the best documentary film this year.
“My dear friend AWDDHAH was massacred tonight, Bas said Basel Adra, the Palestinian co -director of the film. written on social media. “When a bullet that pierced his chest and fired his life, he was standing in front of the community center in his village. Israel wipes us like this – a life every time.”
