Palestinian activist Odeh Hathalin, who served as a consultant on the Oscar-winning doc “No Other Land,” died on Monday after being shot by an Israeli settler in the West Bank, according to multiple reports.
Hathalin’s shooting was first reported by Yuval Abraham, the Israeli journalist and co-director of “No Other Land.” Abraham said Hathalin was “shot in the upper body” and was in critical condition. The Palestinian health ministry subsequently said he had died from these injuries.
Israeli police said its forces arrived at the scene and detained an Israeli civilian, who was later arrested for questioning. Police did not identify the man they arrested. The Israeli military claimed that “terrorists hurled rocks toward Israeli civilians near Carmel,” an Israeli settlement near Umm al-Khair, CNN reported.
Hathaleen was allegedly shot by Yinon Levi, an extremist previously sanctioned by the Biden administration, the U.K. and Canada, according to Israeli media reports.
Odeh just died. Murdered. https://t.co/rRWqSa48iN
— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) July 28, 2025
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Basel Adra, the Palestinian journalist who co-directed “No Other Land,” also shared testimony about his “dear friend” Hathalin.
“He was standing in front of the community settler in his village when a settler fired a bullet that pierced his chest and took his life. This is how Israel erases us — one life at a time,” Adra wrote in a post on Instagram.
Hathalin’s killing is reported to have taken place in a village close to Hebron. Violence by armed Israeli the West Bank has surged since the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Since then, at least 964 Palestinians have been killed by both Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, according to the United Nations.
Hathalin, a well-known activist who had accompanied journalists and activists for years in the West Bank and took part in the filming of “No Other Land,” last month had travelled to California to visit a synagogue as part of an interfaith speaking tour and was detained at San Francisco International Airport upon arrival and deported after immigration officials revoked his visa, according to several reports.
In March Hamdan Ballal, another “No Other Land” co-director was forcibly removed by the Israeli army from an ambulance following a brutal attack by settlers, and subsequently beaten and detained. He was then released following appeals that he be freed from the international film community.
“No Other Land,” which won the best documentary Oscar, was made by an Israeli-Palestinian collective including Abraham, Ballal, Adra and Rachel Szor. It follows a Palestinian family living in the West Bank as their home gets destroyed by the Israeli government and they face displacement.
From Variety US