60 women on hunger strike over Israeli settler killing of West Bank activist
Sixty women from the Palestinian community of Masafer Yatta are now on hunger strike as Israeli police refuse to return the body of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, a week after he was shot dead by an Israeli settler.
Yuval Abraham, the co-director of No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary Hathaleen helped create, says “police [are] still refusing to give the body of Awdah Hathaleen, who was murdered by a settler, back to his loved ones.”
In a video shared by Abraham, Hathaleen’s mother-in-law, Fatme Hathaleen, says the women have been on hunger strike since Thursday and will continue until his body is returned and they can give him a proper funeral.
The police is still refusing to give the body of Odeh Hathalin who was murdered by a settler back to his loved ones. Sixty women from his village are now on hunger strike. Listen to his courageous mother in law pic.twitter.com/MRfRlNFwMX
— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) August 2, 2025
Israel arrests four at protests over killing of West Bank activist: Report
Dozens of people participated in marches through the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Sunday, demanding Israeli police release the body of Palestinian Awdah Hathaleen, who was allegedly shot dead by an Israeli settler last week.
Participants in the protests also demanded the immediate release of a number of village residents, arrested by Israeli forces in a campaign across the community in the occupied West Bank in the days since Hathaleen was killed.
Oren Ziv, a journalist at +972 magazine, said four activists were arrested at the protest in Tel Aviv.
Tonight in Tel Aviv: @the_andrey_x and 3 other activists arrested during a protest calling for Justice for Awdah Hathaleen, killed last week by an Israeli settler pic.twitter.com/6Qv9n2kWWa
— Oren Ziv (@OrenZiv_) August 3, 2025
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians near Jenin
Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians in a raid near the Qabatiya neighbourhood south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, sources have told Al Jazeera.
Their bodies were taken away by the Israeli military, the sources said.
In videos posted on social media and verified by Al Jazeera, Palestinian residents are seen inspecting the aftermath of an Israeli army attack on an agricultural barn near Qabatiya.
تغطية صحفية| قوات الاحتلال تقصف منشأة زراعية بعد حصارها بين بلدتي قباطية ومركة جنوب جنين. pic.twitter.com/6kgJPMDDAM
