Israeli police release settler accused of killing Palestinian activist | West Bank

The Israeli police refused to release the body of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and journalist who helped the Oscar -winning documentary to make another land.

Hathalaen was killed on Monday night during a conflict between settlers using bulldozer in the Umm Al-Khair village in the occupied West Bank and the inhabitants of the town. A video seems to show that Levi fired his gun wildly, and then the people who screamed as Hathaleen, who stayed away in the city center, collapsed.

On Tuesday, Levi was released by a court on Tuesday and took part after a three -day house arrest, which ended tomorrow and allowed him to move freely. According to Avihai Hajabi, Levi’s lawyer, the court ordered that there were evidence that supports the allegations that he had acted in defense and to be released.

Levi, who was previously sanctioned by US President Joe Biden and then removed from the list of sanctions by Donald Trump, may still face charges.

Despite Levi’s release, Hathalaen’s family is still fighting to save his body from the Israeli police so that they can keep his funeral.

“The destructive. His body is still held and the killer is free. They continue to ask where he is, his mother and his wife, when his body will return.

Israeli police, according to a lawyer representing his family, his family will not release the body of Hathaleen until he accepts 10 conditions, including limiting the funeral to 15 people and burying his body outside the birth village.

“The idea is that the police want the funeral to be really small and quiet, so it seems to have never been and no one will come, Kar Karin Wind, who reviewed the conditions and communicates with the police on behalf of the family.

According to a police certificate by Guardian, the police asked for a “drive call” or “amplification” system used in the funeral ceremony and the police demanded a deposit to ensure that they were compatible with the family conditions. The family refused to sign the document and the conditions.

“Fifteen people – this means that even their brothers and children cannot participate in this basis.

The Guardian reached the Israeli police and army for a comment, but it did not take one when it was published. The Israeli army claimed that conditions were necessary to protect public order.

The Israeli soldiers printdled the tent erected on Tuesday, and when they pushed the mourning out of the mourning and threw bombs on activists and journalists, they declared a closed military zone.

Awdeh’s brother Alaa Hathaleen said, “Are they coming to the place they died, killed him and throw people out, and throw people out? This is not a life, it’s contrary to any law in the world.”

Guardian tried to reach Alaa Hathaleen for a comment on Thursday, but discovered that the Israeli army was arrested with 13 inhabitants.

More than 70 women from the village announced on Thursday that the police continued their hunger strike until Awdeh Hathaleen returned the body.

Hathalaen’s activists and relatives underlined that the case calls the case as a system of punishment for Israeli settlers while making a wave of violence against the Palestinians. Since October 2023, at least 1,010 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank by Israeli settlers and soldiers and more than 7,000 people were injured.

On Thursday morning, another settler attack was carried out in the village of Silwad in the West Bank. The Palestinian authority said that Israeli settlers landed in the village and killed a Palestinian man by opening fire on the houses and cars in the village.

“Forty-year-old Khamis Abdel-Lateif Ayad, citizens in the homes of the fires determined by settlers in the homes of the Forty-year-old Forty-year-old Palestinian Health, was martyred because of the fires caused by the breath of smoke caused by the fires.” He said.

The Israeli army told Agency France-Presse that several suspects opened fire on the property and vehicles in Silwad, but they could not define the suspects. Israeli police, said he launched an investigation into the incident.

For settlers who act violent against Palestinians, accountability is rare. Israeli settlements are considered illegal in accordance with international law, but its developments are accelerated under the current right -wing government.

In addition to security and logistics equipment, including Drones and Night Vision glasses, the Israeli government distributed 29 terrain vehicles to settlements on Wednesday. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said at the ceremony to deliver the equipment: “Agricultural farms and young settlements are the pioneers of the Zionist settlement in Jew and Samaria.”

The murder of Hathalaen created an international wave of condemnation. The French Foreign Ministry made a statement that called the Israeli government to hold the murderer of Hathalaen responsible and call the settlement violence as a “issue of terror”.

Umm Al-Khair is in the C region of the West Bank, which is under the control of Israel and is located just below Israel’s Carmel settlement. All settlements in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, is illegal according to international law.

“There is a word here: ‘The dignity of the dead is buried.’ When someone is killed, it should be buried instantly.