Eight residents of the Palestinian hamlet of Umm al-Kheir in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, were arrested overnight after an Israeli settler killed activist Awdah Hathaleen on Monday, The Times of Israel reported.
According to Peace Now, the village head was among those detained when the military entered the hamlet at around 4:30 am on Wednesday.
Hathaleen was part of the Oscar-winning No Other Land film crew.
Yinon Levi, the settler sanctioned by the US and other countries, was placed under house arrest on Tuesday.
A video shared on Instagram on Monday by the co-director of No Other Land showed Levi firing indiscriminately at Palestinians in Umm al-Kheir.
Four men arrested for throwing stones at Levi’s bulldozer remain in Israeli detention.
