This was the cold-blooded murder of one of the activists in the documentary 'No Other Land'.

BarcelonaThis Monday Israeli settler Yinon Levi shot dead Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin in Umm al-Khair, his village in the southern occupied West Bank. The bullet pierced his lung, and he died before reaching the hospital. Hadalin, 31, had participated in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, which showed his involvement in the Palestinian struggle against the colonization of the Massafer Yatta area.

Levi is well-known to West Bank Palestinians for founding the Meitarim Farm outpost in 2021 and instigating the demolition of Palestinian homes by Israeli authorities in the area. He had been sanctioned by the European Union, the United Kingdom, France, Canada and, until Donald Trump arrived at the White House, the United States.

Yuval Abraham, co-director of the documentary, has published in the Palestinian-Israeli magazine +972, the reconstruction of the events that led to Hadalin's murderWith some twenty videos of the events, they refute Levi's claim that "dozens of rioters" attacked him with stones. The images show that the violence was initiated by the settlers.

The shots were fired at 17:29, four minutes after Levi entered private Palestinian lands with a bulldozer., who tried to run over Alaa, Hadalin's cousin. That's when the stone-throwing started at the machine. The settler wasn't injured, but he ran toward the residents and fired two shots in the direction of the village houses and a playground that was full of children, according to witnesses consulted by +972The first shot hit Hadalin in the chest, who was 35 meters away. Tyan Kavanaugh, an international volunteer, tried to revive him, but, according to the article, "he no longer had a pulse." They then "begged" the settlers to call an ambulance, which took Hadalin to a medical center in Beersheba, where he was pronounced dead.

After the incident, Levi remained in the area and, according to the Israeli newspaper HaaretzAn Israeli-American activist felt the settler was saying he was "glad he killed Hadalin." He argued that it couldn't be proven that the settler's shots hit Hadalin and that the Palestinian activist was too far from the gun. The judge released the alleged killer and ordered him under house arrest.

Yesterday morning, the Israeli army forced residents of Umm al-Khayr to dismantle the tent where they were holding the funeral for the slain activist. Israeli authorities have also said they will not return the body to the family unless they agree not to bury it within the village.