Israeli forces have arrested Hamdan Ballal on Monday, one of the co -director of the Documentary Oscarizar Not Other Land. The winner of an Oscar award I was being treated in an ambulance in Massafer Yatta (Cisjordan occupied) After a group of settlers beat him a beating, as reported by the film’s producer.
“A group of settlers has just lincha Hamdan Ballal, co -director of our film Not Other Land. He was beaten and presents wounds in the head and stomach. The soldiers broke into the ambulance they had called and took it. There is no trace of him since then“He has denounced in his X, Yuval Abraham account, the Israeli co -director of the film.
Abraham has subsequently published a video in which a masked individual is seen attacking foreign activists. “The masked settler that is seen in the video is part of the mob that attacked the people of Hamdan. They have continued attacking American activists, breaking their car with stones. We still know where Hamdan is, “he explained.
The Israeli journalist has republished a message from the Palestinian journalist Basel Adra, also co -director of the documentary, who recounts the situation in Hamdan’s house. “I am with Karam, Hamdan’s 7 -year -old son, next to Hamdan’s blood, at homeafter the settlers beat him up (…). This is how Masafer Yatta deleted, “he said.
According to the producer of the film, the events occurred around 6:00 p.m. (17.00 Spanish peninsular time) when A dozen Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village Susiya, of Masafer Yatta, hurting people and destroying properties.
“The group of assailants arrived with cheers, knives and at least one assault rifle; Many were also masked. Five American Jewish activists went to the place to document the attack and were violently assaulted by the settlers, who also used stones to destroy their vehicle with the activists inside, “he collects the note.
During the attack, Ballal was injured “including blood and swelling” And while the paramedics attended him, the Israeli forces arrested him along with another Palestinian. The producer does not know where Ballal is and if he is receiving medical treatment.
Not Other Land It covers five years of recordings (2019-2023) in the home of the Palestinian journalist Basel Adra in the whole of Massofer Yatta villages, in occupied West Bank, in which they show the Housing demolitions, schools, water wells and roads by the Israeli army and that today continue.
On March 3, the film won the Oscar A Best documentary And since then the group of Palestinian-Israeli activists Standing Together have organized projections in Tel Aviv and other cities throughout the country, after the Israeli Minister of Culture, Miki Zohar, asked Israel’s cinemas not to exhibit the film.
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