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.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.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3‘No freedom at all’: Israeli closures leave West Bank patients trappedlist 2 of 3West Bank quarry owner appeals to Trump after settler raidlist 3 of 3Israel kills Palestinian, destroys mosque in Gazaend of listPalestinian 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.The investigation, released on the first anniversary of the killing of Hathaleen, concluded that Israeli settler Yinon Levi had fired the bullet that killed him. He is still evading justice.At an Israeli court, Levi claimed there was no correlation betwee...