Umm al-Khair, occupied West Bank – Every time Yinon Levi returns to Umm al-Khair, where videos and witness testimonies implicate him in the murder of Awdah Hathaleen , anger stirs within the community.

Seeking to prevent further arrests or violence, village leaders urge people to hide in their homes.

But Levi’s appearance leaves villagers, who have long faced home demolitions by Israeli authorities and attacks from Israeli settlers that have intensified since the war in Gaza started , afraid and seething.

Tariq Hathaleen, 31, is a community leader whose eyes are still bloodshot and glossy in grief over his best friend’s murder two months ago.

“Seeing [Levi] makes me sick,” he said with disgust. “Really, it makes me deeply sick.”

A violent settler

The residents of Umm al-Khair ar

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