New investigation shows how an Israeli settler escaped justice

A Palestinian rights’ group found that an Israeli settler killed Awdah Hathaleen but is still escaping justice. Israeli settler faced no threat when Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead, Al-Haq finds Palestinian activist and father of three Awdah Hathaleen pulled out his mobile phone and started filming when an armed settler raided the village of Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank on July 28, 2025. Unknowingly, the 31-year-old — who previously helped with production on the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land” — was filming his final moments. Palestinian rights group Al-Haq reviewed dozens of videos and photographs from the scene, cross-referenced legal testimony, and ran geospatial and open-source analysis to reconstruct what happened.

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Scoop News DeskIsraeli · Published Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 7:55 PM UTCUpdated Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 4:17 PM UTC

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This detail, according to the report, indicates an “operational alignment with the settlers’ actions, manifested through the provision of protection and the absence of law enforcement measures against settlers, who were not treated as criminal suspects”. 1 dead — Awdah Hathaleen but is But Levi was not arrested at the scene.

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