Tel Aviv, Israel – The new video video seems to show at the moment when a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli settler shot towards him during a confrontation with disharmed Palestinians in thenate holiday occupied last month.
The video launched on Sunday by B zelem, an Israeli human rights group, shows the Israeli settler Yinon Levi shooting a weapon towards the person who filmed. The footage is cut but the camera continues to rolling while the person groans pain.
B WSELEM says he obtained the video of Awdah Hathaleen’s family, 31, an activist, English teacher and father of three children who was killed on July 28, and said he had filmed him. Levi, who is shown by shooting his weapon twice in a video filmed by another witness and obtained by Associated Press, was briefly arrested and then released from the house arrest by an Israeli court, who cited the lack of evidence.
The shooting occurred in UMM al-khair, a town that has resisted the violence of the settlers in a profiled area in the Oscar-winning film “No other land.” The attacks of settlers against Palestinians have shot themselves since the outbreak of the Israel-Ahamas War, as well as the attacks of Palestinian militants.
“Awdah’s murder is another horrible example of how the Palestinians, both in Gaza and the West Bank, currently live without any protection, totally exposed to Israeli violence, while Israeli soldiers or settlers can kill them in broad daylight and enjoy full impunity while the world observes,” said Sarit Michaeli, the international director of Dissemination of B zem.
Levi was previously under US sanctions that were raised by the Trump administration.
Both videos seem to show the same confrontation between Levi and a group of Palestinians. The previous video shows it by shooting two shots from a gun, but does not show where they hit the bullets. Several witnesses told the AP that they saw Levi shoot Hathaleen.
Avichai Hajbi, a lawyer who represents Levi, told the AP that Levi acted in self -defense, without specifying what his actions were. Hajbi pointed out the decision of a court earlier this month that released Levi from house arrest, citing insufficient evidence. The judge said that Levi does not represent a danger that justified the continuous house arrest, but prohibited contact with the villagers for a month.
The Israeli police did not immediately respond to a request for comments on whether they had seen the videos.
B zelem said that Levi was with a crew that brought an excavator of a settlement close to UMM al-khair. The residents, for fear of cutting the main water line of the town, gathered on a dirt road to try to block their path, and at least one individual threw a stone in the front window of the vehicle.
Levi faced the crowd while stirring a gun.
The new video shows Levi discussing three men before shooting the weapon in the direction of the person filming. Hathaleen was standing at the Villa’s Community Center about 40 meters (130 feet) of the confrontation, said B zelem. The bullet hit him in the chest and collapsed on the spot, he said.
Eitan Peleg, a lawyer of the Hathaleen family, said they told him that Hathaleen had fired the images on his phone. He said the police asked for the video, which they had not seen. Peleg said he is urging the District Court to investigate Levi for more serious crimes.
Levi helped establish an advanced position of settlers near UMM al-Khair who according to the activists against the establishment is a bastion for the violent settlers who have displaced hundreds since the beginning of the war. The Palestinians and the rights groups have long accused the Israeli authorities of turning a blind eye to the violence of the settlers.
In a 2024 interview, Levi told AP that she was protecting her own land and denied the use of violence.
After the murder of Hathaleen, the Israel army initially refused to return his body for the burial unless the conditions for the funeral were met, including the limitation of the number of people and the location. After an agreement was made with the police about a week later, Hathaleen’s body was returned and buried.
Hathaleen had written and spoken against the violence of the settlers and had helped produce the Oscar -winning film. The supporters have erected murals in their honor in Rome, held vigils in New York and have had posters that bear their name to the protests against the war in Tel Aviv.
