Awdah Hathaleen, a prominent Palestinian activist featured in the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land” was allegedly shot and killed on Monday evening near the village of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank, during clashes with Israeli settlers at whom a group of Palestinians were allegedly throwing stones.

Hebrew media outlets identified one of the Israelis involved in the deadly clash as Yinon Levi, an extremist settler formerly sanctioned by the US under the Biden administration, and still sanctioned by Canada, the UK, and the European Union.

According to reports, Levi allegedly fired toward a group of Palestinians near the settlement of Carmel in the South Hebron Hills. Hathaleen, 31, was seriously wounded in the upper body during the clash and was taken to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, where he succumbed to his wounds hours later.

At least two other Palestinians were said to have been wounded in the incident. The Palestinian Red Crescent and Magen David Adom were both called to the scene to provide emergency medical treatment.

In video footage from the scene of the confrontation, Levi can be seen holding a handgun and firing into the air. A bulldozer is visible in the frame behind him.

The Ynet news site reported that Levi was in the area carrying out permitted construction on a new neighborhood in Carmel, and in Levi’s account of the incident, he alleged that dozens of rioters........

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