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Prosecutors plan to charge an Israeli settler with killing a Palestinian activist in the West Bank
Israeli prosecutors plan to indict Yinon Levi for reckless homicide in the July 2025 killing of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, a rare case amid rising settler violence, rights groups say.
- On Monday, Israel's State Attorney General's office said it had initiated proceedings to indict Yinon Levi, an Israeli settler, over the killing of a Palestinian activist, opening a rare prosecution of settler violence.
- Amid a sharp rise in settler attacks over two years, Hathaleen's death last July drew attention due to his role in the 2025 Oscar-winning film No Other Land and his funeral in Umm al-Khair on Aug. 7, 2025.
- Multiple camera angles captured the confrontation in Umm al-Khair, including footage Alaa Hathaleen filmed showing Yinon Levi waving a pistol, firing two shots, shoving people, and later being detained, placed under house arrest and released.
- Eitan Peleg, an attorney for Hathaleen's family, said prosecutors planned to indict Levi for reckless homicide, which the family called insufficient and described as an intentional, premeditated killing, a rare legal step in West Bank cases.
- On Sunday, Israel's Foreign Ministry announced a land-registration process, with rights groups warning it could strip Palestinians of land and drawing condemnation from Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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Israeli settler to be charged over killing Palestinian activist
Israeli prosecutors said Monday that they plan to charge a settler in the killing of a Palestinian activist during a confrontation that was caught on video, opening a rare prosecution of violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. Attacks from settlers and home demolitions by authorities have spiked dramatically over the past two years, but the death in July of Awdah Hathaleen has drawn particular attention due to his involvement in t…
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