AN ISRAELI SETTLER has been charged over the killing of Palestinian activist and teacher Awdah Hathaleen, in what rights groups say is the first indictment of an Israeli settler for killing a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank since October 2023. Israel’s Ministry of Justice announced today that 33-year-old Israeli settler Yinon Elia Levi had been indicted on charges including reckless manslaughter, trespassing and wilful property damage. The charges relate to the fatal shooting of Hathaleen during a confrontation in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair in the occupied West Bank in July last year. Hathaleen was widely regarded as one of the leading community organisers in Umm al-Khair, regularly hosting international visitors and documenting settler violence in the area. An Israeli settler just shot Odeh Hadalin in the lungs, a remarkable activist who helped us film No Other Land in Masafer Yatta.