An Israeli settler shot dead a Palestinian teacher who helped film Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, the Palestinian education ministry and one of the film's directors said. The ministry said Odeh Hathaleen was shot during a settler attack on Umm Al-Khair village in the occupied West Bank.

A radical Israeli settler accused of shooting and killing a Palestinian activist during a confrontation with unarmed Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and who was filmed firing a pistol during the incident,

The local leader, Awdah Hathaleen, was killed in front of a community centre in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Monday evening, film co-director Basel Adra, who was also Mr Hathaleen's friend, said.