Well-known nonviolent Palestinian activist killed by an Israeli settler

Awdah Hathaleen had a hard time sleeping. Every time his phone vibrated at night, he said, his heart would begin to race. Are the settlers rampaging? Is another home getting demolished? Has anyone been hurt?

“The people are really suffering day and night,” he told a reporter in May. “There is no safety at all. We wish we (could) sleep one night (and) be sure that nothing is going to happen. But we (haven’t) found that so far.”

On Monday, Hathaleen’s nightmares became a reality. The 31-year-old Palestinian Bedouin was shot and killed by a Jewish settler in his village of Umm al-Khair in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. Film shot at the scene showed the attacker opening fire.