Overview

• An Israeli court ordered supervised house arrest for settler Yinon Levi pending investigation into the July 28 fatal shooting of journalist Awdah Hathaleen near Umm al-Kheir.
• Video footage of the shooting, captured by the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has circulated widely on social and international media.
• France condemned the killing as terrorism and joined calls from the EU, United States, United Kingdom and Canada for full accountability.
• Levi had been sanctioned by the EU, US, UK and Canada for prior violent attacks on Palestinian villages before this incident.
• The killing has reignited attention on contested land rights in Masafer Yatta, where residents face military firing-zone designations, demolitions and regular settler violence.