A Palestinian young man was shot and killed by an illegal Israeli colonizer, on Monday, in the village of Umm al-Khair in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.
Ma’an News correspondent quoted the Deputy Secretary of the Fatah movement, Rateb Al-Jabour who stated that medical sources at the Israeli Soroka Hospital announced the death of the citizen, Awdah Mohammad Khalil al-Hathaleen, 31, after he was shot with live rounds by an Israeli settler.
According to Al-Jabour, a group of illegal Israeli colonizers invaded the village of Umm al-Khair and carried out bulldozing operations before local Palestinians arrived to confront the incursion.
He added that during the confrontations, an Israeli settler opened fire with live ammunition, shooting Al-Hathalin in the chest.
Osama Makhamra, a local anti-settlement activist told the WAFA News Agency that Israeli colonizers attacked citizens on their own land in the village, and opened fire at them, injuring a young man with live rounds.
Makhamra said that the slain Al-Hathaleen was a married father of three young children, and worked as a teacher at the Al-Saray’a Secondary School in the Bedouin desert of Masafer Yatta.
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Hathaleen, was a prominent Palestinian activist, known for his contributions to the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land—which chronicles assaults by Israeli settlers and soldiers on the community of Masafer Yatta—was killed on Monday during a settler-led attack.
Abraham, co-director of No Other Land, paid tribute to Hathaleen, describing him as “a remarkable activist who helped us film No Other Land in Masafer Yatta,” underscoring his central role in documenting settler violence against the Palestinian community.
In a post accompanying footage of the deadly incident, Abraham stated that residents of Umm al-Khair identified the assailant as Yinon Levi, a settler reportedly sanctioned by both the European Union and the United States.
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Education announced the killing via social media, stating that Hathaleen was “shot dead by settlers during their assault on the village of Umm al-Khair,” part of the Masafer Yatta region in the occupied West Bank.
The filmmakers behind No Other Land, Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra, confirmed Hathaleen’s death, with Adra writing: “My dear friend Awdah was slaughtered this evening. He was standing outside the community center in his village.”
An Israeli settler just shot Odeh Hadalin in the lungs, a remarkable activist who helped us film No Other Land in Masafer Yatta. Residents identified Yinon Levi, sanctioned by the EU and US, as the shooter. This is him in the video firing like crazy. pic.twitter.com/xH1Uo6L1wN
— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) July 28, 2025
Media sources reported that the settlers assaulted another citizen in the village before being transported to the Yatta Governmental Hospital by Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance crews.
The Ma’an News Agency reported that 60-year-old Ibrahim Eid Al-Hathalin died after a fall when he attempted to repel the settler attack, and added that a settler ran over the citizen, Ahmad Shaib Al-Hathalin with a bulldozer; he was transported to the Abu Al-Hassan Al-Qasim Hospital in Yatta.
Meanwhile, in the central part of the West Bank, armed paramilitary colonizers stormed the “Al-Manateer” and “Al-Kassara” areas of Kafr Malik town, northeast of Ramallah, on Monday evening.
Media sources reported that the armed settlers opened fire with live ammunition at Palestinians who attempted to confront the intrusion, shooting a young man in the hand.
Furthermore, illegal Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds in the Hamma area of the northern Jordan Valley on Monday evening.
Media sources said that colonizers attacked shepherds with sticks and rocks and tried to steal their livestock.
In related news, Israeli colonizers, under police protection, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem on Monday morning and afternoon.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Jerusalem (Silwanic) reported that a total of 250 illegal colonizers invaded the Islamic holy site in the morning and afternoon.
