Palestinians gather at the community of Umm Al-Khair near Hebron to mourn the death of Awdah Hathaleen, who was shot and killed a day earlier, in the West Bank on July 29, 2025. 

A Palestinian activist, who was denied entry to the U.S. at San Francisco International Airport last month, was shot and killed on Monday, allegedly by an Israeli settler, according to media reports and Bay Area politicians. Awdah Hathaleen, an English teacher and father of three who was also known as Odeh Hadalin, was shot to death in his village of Umm al-Khair in the southern West Bank, House Rep. Lateefah Simon of Oakland said in a statement.

Hathaleen also worked on an Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” which depicted Israeli soldiers and settlers’ violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Yuval Abraham, one of the film’s co-directors and an Israeli journalist, was the first to report on Hathaleen’s killing. 

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Abraham and several other U.S. and Israeli media outlets identified the suspect as Yinon Levi. A video posted by Abraham on X shows a confrontation between several people and a man identified as Levi, who........

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