Video appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist is killed as an Israeli settler opens fire

Like Aviv, Israel – new video sequences seem to show at a time when a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli colonist drew towards him during a confrontation with non -armed Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month.

The video published Sunday by B’tselem, an Israeli human rights group, shows the Israeli colonist Yinon Levi pulling a weapon to the person who turns. The images cut but the camera continues to drive while the person moans in pain.

B’tselem says he obtained the video of the family of Awdah Hathaleen, 31, activist, English teacher and father of three children who was shot on July 28, and who, according to them, had filmed him. Levi, which is shown shooting his weapon twice in a video shot by another witness and obtained by the Associated Press, was briefly detained and then released from residential assistance by an Israeli court, which cited the lack of evidence.

The shooting occurred in Umm al-Khair, a village that has long resisted the violence of the colonists in a profiled area in the ossarized film “No other earth”. The attacks of the colonists against the Palestinians have increased since the outbreak of the War of Israel-Hamas, as well as the attacks of Palestinian activists.

“The murder of Awdah is another horrible example of the way in which the Palestinians, in Gaza and in the West Bank, currently live without any protection, entirely exposed to Israeli violence, while Israeli soldiers or settlers can kill them in broad daylight and enjoy full impunity while world watches,” said Sarit Michaeli.

Levi was previously under American sanctions that were lifted by the Trump administration.

The two videos seem to show the same confrontation between Levi and a group of Palestinians. The previous video shows the shots of a gun from a pistol but does not show where the balls have struck. Several witnesses had said to the AP that they had seen Levi shoot Hathaleen.

Avichai Hajbi, a lawyer representing Levi, told AP that Levi had acted in self -defense – without specifying what his actions were. Hajbi underlined the decision of a court earlier this month which released Levi from the resistance to the house, citing insufficient evidence. The judge said Levi had not posed a danger justifying the continuation of resistance to the house, but that he had not prevented him from contacts with the villagers for a month.

Israeli police did not immediately respond to a request for comments as to whether he had seen the videos.

B’tselem said Levi was with a team that brought an excavator of a neighboring colony to Umm al-Khair. The residents, fearing to cut the main line of water in the village, gathered on an earthcate to try to block his path, and at least one individual threw a stone on the front window of the vehicle.

Levi then confronted the crowd while waving a handgun.

The new video shows that Levi arguing in a faithful way with three men before shooting the pistol towards the shooting of the person. Hathaleen was held in the community community center about 40 meters (130 feet) from the confrontation, said B’tselem. The ball struck him on his chest and he collapsed on the spot, he said.

Eitan Peleg, lawyer for Hathaleen’s family, said they told him that Hathaleen had shot the images on his phone. He said the police asked him for the video, which they hadn’t seen. Peleg said he urged the district court to investigate Levi for more serious crimes.

Levi has helped establish an outpost of the settlers near Umm al-Khair that anti-settlement activists say they are a bastion for violent colonists who have moved hundreds since the start of the war. Palestinians and rights defending rights have long accused the Israeli authorities of looking at the violence of the colonists.

In an interview in 2024, Levi told AP that he protected his own lands and had denied having used violence.

After the murder of Hathaleen, the Israeli army initially refused to return its body to bury unless conditions are met for funeral, in particular by limiting the number of people and the location. After an agreement was concluded with the police about a week later, Hathaleen’s body was returned and buried.

Hathaleen had written and pronounced against the violence of the colonists and had helped to produce the Oscar -winning film. Supporters have erected murals in his honor in Rome, held a night light in New York and held signs bearing his name during anti-war demonstrations in Tel Aviv.