France says it condemns the West Bank “murder” of a Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, describing Israeli settler violence as “terrorism.”
Hathaleen, who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was allegedly shot and killed on Monday evening near the village of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank during clashes with Israeli settlers at whom a group of Palestinians were allegedly throwing stones.
“France condemns this murder with the utmost firmness as well as all deliberate acts of violence committed by extremist settlers against the Palestinian population, which are multiplying across the West Bank,” a foreign ministry spokesman says.
“These acts of violence are acts of terrorism.”
The spokesman urges Israeli authorities to “immediately sanction the perpetrators of these acts of violence, which continue with complete impunity, and protect Palestinian civilians.”
Hebrew media outlets identified one of the Israelis involved in the deadly clash as Yinon Levi, an extremist settler sanctioned by the European Union, Canada and the UK.
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