Israeli prosecutors said they plan to charge a settler on Monday for the murder of a Palestinian activist who was killed during a fight that was taped on video.
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In an odd prosecution of violence allegedly perpetrated by a Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank, Israeli prosecutors said they plan to charge the perpetrator on Monday for the murder of a Palestinian activist who was killed during a fight that was taped on video.
According to Newsmax, attacks from settlers and home demolitions by authorities have risen noticeably over the past two years, however, the killing in July of Awdah Hathaleen has drawn noteworthy attention due to his participation in the 2025 Oscar-winning film “No Other Land,” which depicted the struggle of Palestinian villagers’ to remain on their land. The case also stands out because the confrontation between Palestinians and Yinon Levi, an internationally sanctioned settler, was captured on video from several vantage points.
According to Newsmax, a video that family members say was allegedly taken by Hathaleen himself, shows Levi firing toward the person grasping the camera. Another depicted Levi firing two shots without showing where the bullets struck.
Six months ago, an Israeli judge released Levi, citing a lack of evidence that he fired the shots that killed Hathaleen.
But in a statement on Monday, Israel’s State Attorney General’s office confirmed that it had started proceedings to indict Levi. It did not stipulate the charges.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson about the declining number of Christians in the Holy Land, Archbishop Hosam Naoum said the Christian population is at best sustaining a presence – certainly not thriving.
Naoum, an Anglican, is a native Israeli. He was born in Nazareth and is the son of a carpenter. He shared that when he tells people he is a Christian from Nazareth, many ask him when he converted due to the fact that he is Arab. He smiles and says, “2,000 years ago,” for this is where his family is from.
Naoum said that 1948, the year that the state of Israel was formed, and 1967, when the Six-Day War took place, are the two events that presented serious challenges for Christians because so many were expelled from their homeland.
Naoum discussed how Americans have a penchant to systematically link Palestinians with terrorism; he said this is “demonizing” and of course, false. “This is like a kind of killing the image of the Palestinian people by claiming that they are terrorists or they are uncivilized or they are savages,” he said, and it amounts to “pushing an agenda where they just want to frame you so that Palestinians lose sympathy in the world.”
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