Overview

• More than 70 women in Umm al-Kheir began fasting on July 31, vowing not to eat until police lift funeral restrictions and release Hathaleen’s body without imposed limits on mourners or burial location.
• A Jerusalem court freed settler Yinon Levi with a three-day house arrest term that ends tomorrow despite video footage showing him firing the shot that killed the 31-year-old activist.
• Israeli police insist on 10 conditions for handing over Hathaleen’s body, including capping attendance at 15 people, banning public calls at the funeral and staging the burial outside his home village.
• Villagers report that security forces have carried out nightly raids in Umm al-Kheir since the killing, arresting husbands and brothers and subjecting others to beatings during searches.
• Humanitarian groups and foreign governments have decried the episode as evidence of settler impunity and are calling for protective measures for Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank.