An Israeli settler who Israeli officials say is suspected of shooting and killing a Palestinian activist tied to the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” had been sanctioned by the Biden administration for alleged violence against Palestinians — sanctions lifted by the Trump administration.
Yinon Levi, the alleged shooter according to Israeli officials, faced financial sanctions imposed last year under then-President Joe Biden after being cited for allegedly inciting violence against Palestinian civilians and burning farmland.
Speaking to ABC News Chief International Correspondent James Longman last year following Biden’s sanctions, Levi and his wife, Sapir, denied the accusations cited in the sanctions and said they initially thought the sanctions were a “joke.”
“We are here and we have to defend ourselves and nothing more,” Sapir Levi told Longman.
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