Well-known Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, who featured in the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land", was shot and killed in the occupied West Bank by an Israeli settler on Monday, five people who said they witnessed the shooting told Reuters.

Just weeks after standing in the global spotlight at the Oscars in Los Angeles, where he accepted an award for “No Other Land”, a documentary chronicling the plight of his West Bank village– Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal now bears the physical scars of a brutal assault.