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Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers, detained by military

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By Tycoon Herald 6 Min Read Published March 25, 2025
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers, detained by military

Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning documentary No Different Land, is detained by the Israeli navy from his residence within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution on Monday.

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JERUSALEM — Israeli settlers beat up one of many Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary movie No Different Land on Monday within the occupied West Financial institution earlier than he was detained by the Israeli navy, in response to two of his fellow administrators and different witnesses.

Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers team up to create 'No Other Land'

The filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was certainly one of three Palestinians detained within the village of Susiya, in response to legal professional Lea Tsemel. Police instructed her they’re being held at a navy base for medical therapy, and she or he mentioned she hasn’t been capable of communicate with them.

Basel Adra, one other co-director, witnessed the detention and mentioned round two dozen settlers — some masked, some carrying weapons, some in Israeli uniform — attacked the village. Troopers who arrived pointed their weapons on the Palestinians, whereas settlers continued throwing stones.

“We came back from the Oscars and every day since there is an attack on us,” Adra instructed The Related Press. “This might be their revenge on us for making the movie. It feels like a punishment.”

The Israeli navy mentioned it detained three Palestinians suspected of hurling rocks at forces and one Israeli civilian concerned in a “violent confrontation” between Israelis and Palestinians — a declare witnesses interviewed by the AP disputed. The navy mentioned it had transferred them to Israeli police for questioning and had evacuated an Israeli citizen from the realm to obtain medical therapy.

No Different Land, which gained the Oscar this yr for finest documentary, chronicles the battle by residents of the Masafer Yatta space to cease the Israeli navy from demolishing their villages. Ballal and Adra, each from Masafar Yatta, made the joint Palestinian-Israeli manufacturing with Israeli administrators Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.

Basel Adra (from left), Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham, winners of the award for best documentary feature film for No Other Land, pose in the press room at the Oscars on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Basel Adra (from left), Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham, winners of the award for finest documentary characteristic movie for No Different Land, pose within the press room on the Oscars on March 2 on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

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The movie has gained a string of worldwide awards, beginning on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant in 2024. It has additionally drawn ire in Israel and overseas, as when Miami Seaside proposed ending the lease of a movie show that screened the documentary.

"No Other Land" tells the story of a Palestinian town in the West Bank that was bulldozed by the Israeli government for use as a military training zone.

Adra mentioned that settlers entered the village Monday night shortly after residents broke the every day quick for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. A settler — who in response to Adra often assaults the village — walked over to Ballal’s residence with the navy, and troopers shot within the air. Ballal’s spouse heard her husband being crushed exterior and scream “I’m dying,” in response to Adra.

Adra then noticed the troopers lead Ballal, handcuffed and blindfolded, from his residence right into a navy automobile. Chatting with the AP by telephone, he mentioned Ballal’s blood was nonetheless splattered on the bottom exterior his personal entrance door.

A number of the particulars of Adra’s account had been backed up by one other eyewitness, who spoke on situation of anonymity out of concern of reprisal.

A bunch of 10 to twenty masked settlers with stones and sticks additionally assaulted activists with the Middle for Jewish Nonviolence, smashing their automobile home windows and slashing tires to make them flee the realm, one of many activists on the scene, Josh Kimelman, instructed the AP.

Video offered by the Middle for Jewish Nonviolence confirmed a masked settler shoving and swinging his fists at two activists in a dusty area at night time. The activists rush again to their automobile as rocks could be heard thudding in opposition to the automobile.

Israel captured the West Financial institution within the 1967 Mideast struggle, together with the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. The Palestinians need all three for his or her future state and examine settlement development as a significant impediment to a two-state answer.

Rachel Szor, left, Hamdan Ballal Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham accept the Oscar for best documentary feature film for No Other Land.

Israel has constructed effectively over 100 settlements, residence to over 500,000 settlers who’ve Israeli citizenship. The three million Palestinians within the West Financial institution dwell underneath seemingly open-ended Israeli navy rule, with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority administering inhabitants facilities.

The Israeli navy designated Masafer Yatta within the southern West Financial institution as a live-fire coaching zone within the Nineteen Eighties and ordered residents, largely Arab Bedouin, to be expelled. Round 1,000 residents have largely remained in place, however troopers commonly transfer in to demolish houses, tents, water tanks and olive orchards — and Palestinians concern outright expulsion might come at any time.

In the course of the struggle in Gaza, Israel has killed a whole lot of Palestinians within the West Financial institution throughout wide-scale navy operations, and there has additionally been an increase in settler assaults on Palestinians. There was a surge in Palestinian assaults on Israelis.

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