Tel Aviv, Israel (AP) – The new video footage depicts the moment when a Palestinian worker was killed as an Israeli settling during a confrontation with unarmed Palestinians at West Bank occupied last month.
The video released on Sunday by an Israeli human rights group B’Tselem shows Israeli settlement Yinan Levi A gun firing towards the filming person. The footage is cut but the camera rolles as mourning in pain.
B’Tselem says that it received a video from the family of 31 -year -old, a worker, an English teacher and the father of three, Awadh Hatlin, who was shot and killed on 28 July, and he said it was shot. Levi, Shown twice In the video shot by another witness and obtained by the Associated Press, he was briefly detained and then detained and then House arrested from arrest By an Israeli court, which cited the lack of evidence.
The shooting took place in Um al-Khair, a village in which violence occurs in a long-term settlement area. Oscar winning film “No other land.” Since the outbreak of the attack on Palestinians Israel-Hamas WarAs there are attacks by Palestinian terrorists.
“The murder of Awadh is another frightening example of how in Palestinians, Gaza and West Bank, currently living without any kind of security, is completely in touch with Israeli violence, while Israeli soldiers or settled soldiers can kill them in a wider day and see the world,” Sarrit Michael said that the International Outreach is the international outreach.
Levi was previously under US sanctions That was raised by the Trump administration,
Both video shows the same confrontation between the levy and a group of Palestinians. In the earlier video, he was shown firing two shots from a pistol, but was not shown where the bullets took place. Several witnesses told AP that they shot Lavi Hathelan.
A lawyer representing Levy, indigestion Hajbi, told AP that Levi worked in self-defense-specified what his actions were. Hazbi pointed to the court’s verdict earlier this month Levi released from house arrestCiting insufficient evidence. The judge said that Levi justified a threat, justifying the arrest of the house, but stopped him from contact with the villagers for a month.
The Israeli police immediately did not respond to a request for comment whether they had seen the video.
B’Tselem said the levy was with a crew who was digging a dig with an excavation in Um al-Khair. Residents, fear, it would cut the main water line of the village, a dirt gathered on the road to gather and block its path, and at least one person threw a stone at the front window of the vehicle.
Levi then faced a crowd waving a handgun.
The new video features a warm debate with three men before firing a gun in the direction of a person who shot Levi. Hathel stood in about 40 meters (130 ft) village community center with a collision, B’Tselem said. The bullet hit him in the chest and he fell on the spot, said.
Etan Paleg, a lawyer from Hathel’s family, said he told him that Hathel had shot the footage on his phone. He said that the police asked for a video from him, which he had not seen. Paleg said that he is urging the district court to investigate the levy for more serious crimes.
Levi helped install a settled outpost near Umm al-Khair, which anti-settlement activists say that there is a stronghold for those who settled hundreds of displaced since the beginning of the war. Groups of Palestinians and Rights have long accused Israeli officials of shutting down the violence.
One in 2024 interviewLevi told AP that he was protecting his land and refusing to use the violence.
After Hathel’s assassination, Israel’s army Initially refused to return your body Until the conditions for the funeral were completed for burial, including limiting the number and location of people. After a compromise with the police about a week later, Hathel’s body was returned and buried.
Hethel had written and talked against the Setler violence and helped produce the Oscar winning film. Supporters have made a mural painting in his honor in Rome, have organized clums in New York and indicated about his name in anti-war protests in Tel Aviv.
Sam Medic, Associated Press
