Wave of condemnation after killing of Palestinian activist in West Bank | West Bank

Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and journalist who helped him make an Oscar -winning documentary, was killed during the attack of Israeli settlers in Israeli settlers, and the Israeli settler was a wave of condemnation of what was defined as a state penalty.

A video shot on Monday shows that Yinon Levi, an Israeli-setted Yinon Levi, under sanctions by US President Joe Biden, was later removed from Donald Trump’s sanction list and fired the residents of the Umm Al-Khair village during the killing.

He was arrested for being questioned by the Israeli police, but was later released under house arrest while the investigation continued.

Awdah’s brother -in -law, Alaa Hathaleen, who was present during the killing of AwDah, said: Alaa Hathaleen said: ”[Levi] He immediately started shooting everyone randomly. He said to him, ‘There are many people here, there are children – don’t shoot!’ But he still shot. AWDah was not included. “

The killing comes in the midst of the wave of military violence against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Since October 2023, at least 1,009 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and wounded more than 7,000.

For settlers who act violent against Palestinians, accountability is rare. Israeli settlements are considered illegal in accordance with international law.

According to activists from Umm Al-Khair in the Southern Hebron Hills, killing after passing through a settler territory in a bulldozer and destroying trees and properties.

The village is located just below the Carmel settlement of Israel, founded in 1980.

When a resident approached to stop the driver of the Bulduzer, the driver toppled him with a bulldozer knife. Eyewitnesses claimed that the inhabitants began to throw stones and that Levi came out of the settlement and started to shoot. Awdah Hathaleen, who stayed away from the conflict, was then shot with a bullet.

Alaa said: “Yesterday morning, we were laughing and joking. I didn’t know that I would see it last. I carried it here. Blood was everywhere.”

About a dozen Israel raided the military mourning tent and pushed out to go out while holding a thumb on the needle of a stunning grenade. The soldiers declared a military zone closed to the region and said only the village residents could be found. They arrested the two activists and threw stunned grenades at the journalists who were very slow to leave.

As the soldiers pushed him out of the tent, Alaa said, “Is it to come to the place they died, killed him and throw people out? This is not a life, this is contrary to any law in this world.”

Although the region is a closed military zone, the residents later sent the video of a settler who operated a bulldozer in the village.

The murder of Awdah Hathalaen created a wave of sympathy and condemnation that the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls the settlement violence as “a matter of terror”.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “France, pro -excessive settlers against the Palestinian population that has increased throughout the West and condemns all the deliberate violence,” he said.

Hathaleen was a three -year -old father and Masafer, a series of hamlets in the south of Hebron, which was declared a military zone by Israel, lived in Yatta. Efforts to prevent Israeli forces from destroying their homes were the subject of the Oscar -winning documentary.

“My dear friend Awdah was massacred tonight, Bas Basel Adra, the Palestinian wife of another land documentary, wrote. “When a bullet fired a bullet that pierced his chest and took his life, he was standing in front of the community center in his village. Israel wipes us like this – a life every time.”

The activists shared the latest message Hatialeen sent before being killed, and called on people to stop the settler rape to Umm Al-Khair.

Hathalaen, “The settlers work behind our homes and… They tried to cut the main water pipe for the community… If you can reach people like congress, the courts, anyway, please do everything,” he wrote.

The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education accused the Israeli settlers in the West Bank of killing the activist and wrote on social media that Hathaleen was “shot by settlers”.

The Israeli army accepted the incident and said an armed “Israeli civilian çıl had opened fire on a group of people throwing rocks. Israeli police, an Israeli citizen arrested to question and investigated the incident, the army, including two international solidarity activities, including seven people from Umm Al-Khair, he said.

The police added, “The death of a Palestinian after the incident was confirmed,” he added.

A police representative said Levi was attacked by Levi and a child during the arrest and that he seems to be “their lives in danger”.

Michael Sfard, one of the leading human rights lawyers of Israel, said the settlers enjoyed “complete punishment” in Israel.

“The justice in which the miracles in the past disappeared completely disappeared. That is, the settlement violence serves the state violence and the political and ideological interests of Israel,” he said.

Trump Removed Biden sanctions were applied In the Israeli -occupied West Bank, Levi, who terrorized the Palestinians, and in an extreme settler and organization more than a dozen, On the first day in the office In January.

Levi is under the sanctions of both the EU and the UK.

Hathaleen also documented the forcibly deportation and demolition campaign for the Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972.

In a report titled last week “Occupation in Umm Al-Khair damages us to multi-beloved trauma”– “Destruction forces enter the village. All children run to their mothers who try to save everything from their homes before they are too late. Everyone is watching worried to see who will be homeless today. Bulduzers, bulldozer stopping. Answers.”