New Video Appears To Show When Israeli Settler Killed Palestinian Activist In West Bank
Tel Aviv, Israel (AP) – New video images look like showing Last month, a Palestinian activist was killed as the Israeli settlement fired towards him, while confronting the unarmed Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The video published by an Israeli Human Rights Group B’s Sunday shows Israel settler Yinon Levi Shoot the gun to the person. The images cut, but the camera continues to roll while the person suffer.
B’Tselem said the video was shot and killed on July 28 and said that they received the three activist, English teacher and father Awdah Hathalaleen family. Levi, Shown that he fired his gun twice He was briefly detained in the video taken by another witness and obtained by Associated Press and then Released from House Stukling by an Israeli court referring to the lack of evidence.
The shooting occurred in Umm Al-Khair, a village with a long-worn settlement violence in a profile area. Oscar -winning film “Another Land”. The settler attacks on the Palestinians have increased since it erupted Israel-Hamas WarLike the attacks of Palestinian militants.
Sarit Michaeli, B’Srail soldiers or settlers killed in a wide -day light in the light of daylight, and while enjoying the settlers, “Awdah’s murder, both in Gaza and the West Sanda, the Palestinians in the moment without any protection, Israel violence is completely exposed to the exposure to the fullness of a terrible example of a terrible example,” he said.
Levi was under US sanctions before Removed by Trump Management.
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Both videos seem to show the same conflict between Levi and a group of Palestinians. The previous video showed that he had made two shots from a pistol, but he did not show where the bullets hit. A few witnesses told the AP that they saw Levi shot Hathaleen.
A lawyer who represented Levi, Avichai Hajbi, told the AP to say that Levi was acting in defense-defense. Hajbi drew attention to the decision of a court at the beginning of this month. He took Levi out of house arrestreferring to insufficient evidence. The judge said that Levi did not pose a danger that maintains house arrest, but prevented him from contacting the peasants for a month.
The Israeli police did not respond immediately to the request for a comment on whether they saw the videos.
B’Tselem said that Levi was with a crew from a nearby settlement that brought an excavator to Umm Al-Khair. The inhabitants, who were afraid of the village to cut the main water line, gathered on a earth to prevent and prevent the path, and at least one person threw a stone into the front window of the vehicle.
Levi then shakes a pistol while faced the crowd.
The new video shows that Levi had a warm discussion with three men before ignoring the person who pulled the gun. B’slem said that Hathalaen was standing in the village community center about 40 meters (130 feet) before confrontation. The bullet hit him on his chest and collapsed in place.
Eitan Peleg, a lawyer for Hathaleen’s family, said they said he had hit the images on Hathaleen’s phone. He said the police wanted the video they didn’t see. Peleg said that he called the Regional Court to investigate Levi for more serious crimes.
Levi helped the establishment of a settlement police station, where the activists near Umm Al-Khair said it was a castle for severe settlers who have been from hundreds of places since the beginning of the war. Palestinians and Right groups have long accused Israeli officials of a blind glance at the settlement violence.
One 2024 InterviewLevi told the EP that he had protected his own land and refused to use violence.
Israel’s army after the murder of HATHALALEEN initially refused to return his body Unless the conditions for the funeral are met, to be buried, including limiting the number and position of people. About a week later, after an agreement was made with the police, Hathaleen’s body was returned and buried.
Hathalaen wrote against the severity of the settler and spoke and helped to produce an Oscar -winning film. The supporters set up wall paintings in their honor in Rome, guarded in New York, and organized signs in the anti -war protests in Tel Aviv.
