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How Settlers are Terrorizing this West Bank Village

5 claims checked · August 2026

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  1. Claim 1
    Accurate96% confidence▶ 0:34
    “one of the producers, one of the activists from no other land was actually killed last year on the 28th of July by an by an Israeli settler who Yunan Levy”

    Awdah Hathaleen, who helped make the documentary No Other Land, was killed by Israeli settler Yinon Levi on July 28, 2025, and footage recorded the shooting.

    Reliable reporting identifies Awdah Hathaleen as a Palestinian activist who helped make No Other Land and states that he was killed on July 28, 2025, by settler Yinon Levi. The film footage also shows Levi firing in the incident, although Hathaleen’s precise production role is variously described as contributor, activist, or someone who helped make the film rather than necessarily a formal producer.

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  2. Claim 2
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 0:41
    “by an Israeli settler who Yunan Levy who was sanctioned as I mentioned by the European Union.”

    Yinon Levi was sanctioned by the European Union before Hathaleen’s killing.

    The EU Council listed Yinon Levi on April 19, 2024, citing his participation in multiple violent acts against neighboring Palestinian villages from the Mitarim Farm illegal outpost.

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  3. Claim 3
    Attributed toDiana ButtuAuto-approvedFalse98% confidence▶ 0:50
    “He to this day still remains outside of prison. He's not been charged with anything”

    Yinon Levi remained uncharged after Hathaleen’s killing.

    At the time of earlier reporting, Levi had been released from custody and was not charged with a homicide offense. However, current reporting states that Israeli prosecutors charged him with reckless manslaughter on August 6, 2026, making the present-tense claim false.

    The phrase “to this day” is judged as a present-tense claim as of August 6, 2026, rather than as a statement limited to the date the video was recorded.

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  4. Claim 4
    Attributed toDiana ButtuAuto-approvedMisleading50% confidence▶ 0:54
    “even though um his even though Ald's death was captured by him. He actually documented his own killing.”

    Hathaleen documented his own killing.

    Video evidence exists and has been reported as showing Levi's involvement in the shooting. However, the wording says the killer documented his own killing, which reverses or confuses the documented facts: the available accounts do not say Levi filmed his own killing, and the victim was killed rather than documenting his own death.

    Omits: Available reports describe video footage showing Yinon Levi shooting toward Palestinians and footage released by B'Tselem; they do not establish that Levi documented his own killing or that the victim recorded the fatal shot himself.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.

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  5. Claim 5
    Attributed toDiana ButtuAuto-approvedMisleading88% confidence▶ 1:19
    “what the Israeli army has done is they have literally taken over the the farm of one man or his brother, made sure that he that he can't reach his barn. So his animals get fed once every three days. But then get this, Maddi, he they've also taken over his bathroom. So he and his family can't even access their bathroom. Why? Because all of this has been declared to be a closed military zone.”

    The Israeli army took over a Palestinian farmer’s farm and bathroom, preventing access to his barn and bathroom after declaring the area a closed military zone.

    A Ta’ayush account describes settlers occupying the outside bathroom and blocking access to the sheep pen, followed by the army declaring a closed military zone. The claim captures the reported outcome but misleadingly attributes the occupation of the farm and bathroom to the army rather than distinguishing the settlers’ actions from the army’s closure order.

    Omits: The available contemporaneous account says settlers occupied the bathroom and restricted access to the sheep pen, while the army declared the area a closed military zone; it does not support attributing the physical takeover itself entirely to the army.

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    • 1Weekly Summary from Masafer Yatta, July 3–9, 2026

      BackgroundOn July 3, they cut your fence down, destroy the water pipes, occupy the outside bathroom, hoist a flag, put up a barbed wire fence in the yard, and sit down to enjoy their newly occupied property. The army declares a closed military zone for 48 hours (to be renewed each time it expires), but this does not apply to the settlers.

    • 2Life in a “Firing Zone” – Massafer Yatta Communities

      SupportsHowever, in the 1980s the Israeli authorities designated most of this area, including 14 communities, as a closed military zone for training, a so-called ‘Firing Zone 918’.