Israel charges settler over killing of Palestinian involved in Oscar-winning West Bank film

BBC News · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · Aug 06, 2026 · 595 words · By Henry Moore

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Israel charges settler over killing of Palestinian involved in Oscar-winning West Bank film - Published Israeli prosecutors have charged a settler over the killing of a Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank who helped film Oscar-winning documentary…

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What happened

Why it matters

Yinon Levy was charged with reckless manslaughter over the July 2025 shooting of Odeh Hathaleen, according to Israel's Southern District Prosecutor's Office.

Common ground

Israeli rights group B'Tselem said it was the first time an Israeli had been indicted for killing a Palestinian in the West Bank for nearly three years.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that He featured in the 2025 Oscar-winning film No Other Land, that follows the legal fight between the Israeli government and Palestinians over Masafer Yatta, a West Bank community of about 20 villages?
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “He featured in the 2025 Oscar-winning film No Other Land, that follows the legal fight between the Israeli government and Palestinians over Masafer Yatta, a West Bank community of about 20 villages.”

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Wikipedia confirms 'No Other Land' is a documentary about Masafer Yatta and that Awdah Hathaleen was a consultant/activist on the film.

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Claim 2: “Israeli prosecutors have charged a settler over the killing of a Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank who helped film Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.”

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Multiple independent sources confirm that Israeli prosecutors charged settler Yinon Levi for the killing of Awdah Hathaleen, who was a consultant/activist on the film 'No Other Land'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the former territory of Mandatory Palestine. Key aspects of the conflict …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli–Palestinian_conflict

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Intermittent discussions are held by various parties and proposals put forward in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through a peace process. Since the 1970s, there has been a para…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli–Palestinian_peace_proc…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — No Other Land (Arabic: لا أرض أخرى, romanized: Lā arḍ ukhrá) is a 2024 documentary film directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor, in their directorial debut. A Palestinian…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Other_Land

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Claim 3: “Yinon Levy was charged with reckless manslaughter over the July 2025 shooting of Odeh Hathaleen, according to Israel's Southern District Prosecutor's Office.”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that on July 28, 2025, Awdah Hathaleen was shot and killed by Israeli settler Yinon Levi. Web search results confirm the charge of reckless homicide/manslaughter.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israeli settler violence refers to acts of violence, intimidation, property damage, and other reported attacks carried out by Israeli settlers, mainly in the West Bank against Palestinians. It has bee…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settler_violence

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On July 28, 2025, Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and consultant on the 2024 documentary No Other Land, was shot and killed by Israeli settler Yinon Levi in the village of Umm al-Khair in the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Awdah_Hathaleen

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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · At Microsoft Research, we are shaping the next generation of AI infrastructure through high-risk, high-reward programs spanning devices, systems, software, hardware, and AI infrastructure…
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/careers/open-positi…

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Claim 4: “The indictment is the first since the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel... B'Tselem said.”

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The provided evidence does not contain the specific statement from B'Tselem regarding this being the first indictment since October 7, 2023.

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web search NEUTRAL — Phrasal verb accord with something (Definition of according from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/accordin…

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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · Accord is also a noun, meaning "agreement". Thus, we often hear of two countries signing a peace accord; and we also frequently hear of two things or people being "in accord with" each ot…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/according

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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · Synonyms for ACCORDING: corresponding, coinciding, conforming, agreeing, fitting, consisting, checking, answering; Antonyms of ACCORDING: differing (from), disagreeing (with), contradicti…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/according

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Claim 5: “At least 1,110 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank since then, according to the UN.”

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A web search result citing OCHA (UN) states that between 7 October 2023 and 13 July 2026, 1,111 Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank.

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web search NEUTRAL — Israeli soldiers or settlers have killed at least 1 080 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 2023.Official Israeli figures show that at least 46 Israelis, both civilians and soldiers, have been…
https://www.news24.com/world/palestinians-caught-between-atr…

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web search NEUTRAL — 87 Palestinians have been killed since the start of this year. According to OCHA, between 7 October 2023 and 13 July 2026, 1,111 Palestinians – at least 243 of them children – were killed in the occup…
https://qudsnen.com/post?id=68074&slug=israeli-soldiers-exec…

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web search NEUTRAL — Three Israelis were killed in the West Bank during the same period, including two who were killed along with four Palestinians during a settler attack in July. The UN has documented some 6.6 incidents…
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-ju…

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Claim 6: “The charges against Levy also include armed trespassing and malicious property damage during the incident in which settlers operated an excavator in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair”

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Multiple web search results explicitly state that Levi faces charges of armed trespassing and malicious property damage related to an incident involving an excavator in Umm al-Khair.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of economic sanctions involving Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sanctions_involving_Is…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Eid Suleiman Hathaleen (also Hadaleen or Hthaleen; Arabic: عيد سليمان الهذالين, romanized: ʿĪd Sulaymān al-Haḏḏālīn; born 1983 or 1984) is a Palestinian artist and activist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_Hathaleen

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Claim 7: “Israeli rights group B'Tselem said it was the first time an Israeli had been indicted for killing a Palestinian in the West Bank for nearly three years.”

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While the killing and indictment are confirmed, the specific claim that B'Tselem called this the first indictment in nearly three years is not present in the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has been under military occupation by Israel since 7 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then occupied by Jordan, during the Six-Day War. Th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_West…

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Claim 8: “According to the indictment... Levy cocked his gun and fired in the direction of residents, hitting Hathaleen. He then fired another shot into the air”

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Web search results describe the sequence of events: Levi fired a shot hitting Hathaleen and then fired a second shot/warning shot into the air.

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web search NEUTRAL — Yinon Eliya Levi, 33, killed Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen during a confrontation in the South Hebron Hills village of Umm al-Khair last July.Levi had allegedly readied the gun again, warned th…
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-904756

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Claim 9: “At least 41 Israelis have been killed either by a Palestinian armed group or civilian in the West Bank during the same period, the UN said.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the specific number of 41 Israelis killed in the West Bank during this period.

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Claim 10: “Israel's Supreme Court ruled to allow the demolition of homes and expulsion of more than 1,000 villagers in 2022.”

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No evidence was provided in the search results regarding the 2022 Supreme Court ruling on the demolition of homes in Masafer Yatta.

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Claim 11: “Levy... was sanctioned by the UK in 2024 because he 'used physical aggression, threatened families at gunpoint, and destroyed property as part of a targeted and calculated effort to displace Palestinian communities', the UK government said at the time.”

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Claim 12: “He was also sanctioned by the US under the Biden administration but those sanctions were subsequently lifted under President Donald Trump.”

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