Israeli forces arrested this Monday A, one of the co -director of the Documentary Oscarizar No other landwhile he was being treated in an ambulance in Massafer Yatta (busy), after a group of settlers beat him a beating, the film’s producer reported.
“A group of settlers has just lincha Hamdan Ballal, co -director of our film No 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 denounced in his X, Yuval Abraham account, the Israeli co -director of the film.
According to the film’s producer, the events occurred around 6:00 p.m. on Monday (16.00 GMT) when a dozen Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village, Susiya, Masafer Yatta, hurting people and destroying properties.
“The group of assailants came with batons, 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 attacked 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.
No Other Land It covers five years of recordings (2019-2023) in the home of the Palestinian journalist Basel Adra in the whole of Masafer Yatta villages, in occupied West Bank, in which they show the demolitions of homes, schools, water wells and roads by the Israeli army and that continue today.
On March 3, the film won the Oscar for 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.
