ISRAELI prosecutors plan to charge a settler over the killing of a Palestinian activist during a confrontation caught on video, launching a rare action against Jewish settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

Attacks by settlers and home demolitions by the Israeli authorities have spiked dramatically over the past two years, but the death in July of Awdah Hathaleen has drawn particular attention, due to his involvement in last year’s Oscar-winning film No Other Land, which chronicled Palestinian villagers’ fight to stay on their land.

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