New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- Prosecutors charged an Israeli settler, Yinon Levi, on Thursday in the killing of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in the occupied West Bank.

This is for the first time since the October 7, 2023 attack - that sparked the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza - that an Israeli was indicted for killing a Palestinian in the West Bank, said Israeli rights group B'Tselem.

"Yinon Eliya Levi (33), from Ma'on, has been charged with allegedly firing toward an area where people were present during a confrontation that developed over earthworks on private land, causing the death of the late Awdah Hathaleen," Israel's ministry of justice said on X.

"The Southern District Prosecutor's Office has filed an indictment against him... on cha...