A n 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 prominent Palestinian activist who had worked on an Oscar-winning documentary was killed on Monday during an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, according to local journalists and officials.

The Palestinian Authority said Israeli settlers set fire to homes and cars in a West Bank village on Thursday, killing one man, in the latest attack in the occupied territory.