The Israeli journalist Yuval Abrahamco -director of the, has denounced in a message posted on the social network X (Before Twitter), that an Israeli settler has murdered on Monday in the village of Um Al-Kheir, south of the city of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin, That he helped in the recording of the film, documenting for years the abuses of the occupants in, one of the areas most harassed by the illegal settlements. It has been the neighbors who have identified the aggressor as Yinon Levia swallowed settler by both the European Union and by the US for its involvement in attacks against Palestinian civilians.
“Yinon Levi, an Israeli settler on which sanctions weigh for its involvement in serious episodes of violence against Palestinian citizens, has shot at the residents of Masafer Yatta. Odeh Hadalin, a friend who helped in the recording of No Other Landhe has been shot in the chest and is in serious condition. Several neighbors have assured that Levi is the author of the shots, ”said Yuval Abraham in X, next to a video in which the alleged attacker is seen in a moment before the shooting. Two minutes after the first message, the co -director of the documentary has updated all the information, already with the fatal outcome:“ Odeh is dead. Murdered”.
Yinon Levi, indicated by the Israeli Oenegé Breaking the Silence As one of the most violent Israeli settlers installed in the south of the occupied West Bank, it already appeared since 2024 in the sanctioned lists of the European Union, the United States (in the Biden era) and Canada for its involvement in acts of systematic harassment against the Palestinian civilians. However, Donald Trump’s administration decided to withdraw the sanctions imposed by Washingtonin a diplomatic turn to reinforce the support of the Netanyahu government.
Hadalin, father of three children, was part of the group of residents of Masafer Yatta who collaborated with the filming of the documentary between 2019 and 2023. The film, directed by Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor, portrays from within the life under military occupation in the villages of the southern Hebron: the demolitions of houses, schools, wells and roads agricultural and systematic harassment by armed settlers. In March of this year, no Other Land received the Oscar for best documentary feature film.
The organization Breaking the Silencemade up of veterans of the Army of Israel who are dedicated to denouncing the Israeli abuses committed in the occupied Palestinian territories, has condemned Hadalin’s murder in a statement published, also, in X: “Odeh is just the last victim of a system led by the State and the settlers, designed to make life impossible for the Palestinians,” he says. The organization accuses Yinon Levi of having participated directly in the attack and appearing in a video shooting against several residents of Um al-Kheir. It also emphasizes that the Israeli authorities have never judged or investigated it, while regretting that the new Trump administration revoked the sanctions imposed during the Biden mandate.
Hadalin’s death coincides with an escalation of violence in the West Bank from the outbreak of the War in Gaza, on October 7, 2023. According to data from the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Office (Ocha), the Israeli forces and the settlers have killed at least 943 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, among them more than 200 minors, in just twenty months. Masafer Yatta, where villages such as Tuwani and Susiya are concentrated, is among the most beaten areas.
