West Bank Palestinian man filmed his shooting by settler

Awdah Hathaleen, the prominent Palestinian activist who was killed late last month by an extremist Jewish settler in the West Bank, filmed the moment he was shot, newly released video footage reveals.

- Peter Beaumont

Hathaleen, who worked on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, which examined settler violence against the Palestinian Masafer Yatta community, was killed on 28 July by Yinon Levi, a settler who was already under sanctions in the UK and the EU for violent acts against Palestinians.

The footage, released by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, appears to offer clear evidence of Levi's direct involvement in Hathaleen's killing on 28 July, which sparked international outrage.

Levi was arrested over the killing but quickly released after a court ruling that the evidence he had fired at Hathaleen had "weakened".

Levi has denied he fired the deadly shot. However, the footage filmed by Hathaleen shows Levi draw his weapon and fire it in Hathaleen's direction. Hathaleen is then heard groaning and falling to the ground.