His police Israel released on Tuesday (25.03.25) Palestinian director Hamdan Balal, who received an Oscar award this year for the film “No Other Land”, the day after his arrest.
According to activists and people with whom the documentary – film returned, the director was targeted by the attacking Jewish settlers on the occupied West Bank and was arrested last Tuesday by the Israeli army.
“The purpose of the attack was to kill me,” the director said. “After winning the Oscar, I didn’t expect to accept such attacks,” admitted.
THE BazelAlso, a key contributor to the film, released via X’s photo by Hamdan Ballal after his release, in which he is depicted as he is depicted as he They measure his pressure, with eyes closed and blood spots on the blouse.
Hamdan Ballal ist wieder frei. “He was beaten by soldiers and settlers all over his body. The soldiers left him blindfolded and handcuffed throughout of military base last night.” pic.twitter.com/iCkZp0a8rf
– mausebaer (@ mausebaer17) March 25, 2025
“Hamdan was released and he was given care (…) in a Hebron hospital. He was hit by soldiers and settlers all over his body, “he said, adding that” his soldiers had closed his eyes and holding his hands tied with handcuffs all night. “
Hamdan Ballal was released today after spending nearly twenty-four hours in Israeli detention. pic.twitter.com/cv268ySUe0
— +972 Magazine (@972mag) March 25, 2025
In a statement yesterday, the Israeli army said that three Palestinians “suspected” and Israeli citizen were arrested, denouncing that members were arrested by someone “in an ambulance”.
He referred to “Palestinian terrorists” who “threw stones” against “Israeli citizens” and cars in return for a “clash”. He added that an Israeli citizen was injured.
1/ Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning No Other Land, was beaten by settlers & detained by Israel on 3/24/25.
Released 3/25 after global outcry.
His film exposed occupation’s toll—silencing him proves it.pic.twitter.com/HrfrBGvBE7
— Alfred Lanning (@alfred_lanning1) March 26, 2025
The events unfolded in the village of Sousiya, on the South West Bank, a Palestinian region occupied by Israel since 1967, according to Center for Jewish Nonviolence, a non -governmental organization opposed to the Occupation, whose members were on the ground and shooting videos.
A police spokesman confirmed earlier yesterday the arrest of Mr Balal, before announced that both the director and the other two Palestinians were released.
Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, recounts being abducted by Israeli forces from an ambulance after he was injured in a violent raid by illegal settlers on his village in the occupied West Bank pic.twitter.com/CuLrgjpL1E
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Yesterday Monday, Yuval Abraham, the Israeli coefficient of the film, said Balal had a violent attack. “Group of settlers attacked Hamdan Ballal’s house“And he lynched him, before the soldiers entered an ambulance who had just arrived there” and captured him, “Mr. Abraham explained via X.
Jenna, an American activist who did not give her surname for her safety, said she He saw police driving Hamdan Balal and two more Palestinians in a police vehicle.
Prior to the arrival of the Israeli forces, he added, a group of “15 to 20 settlers” attacked Mr Balal’s home to present. These were episodes that “often happen” to it.
Turn to Masafe Yata, village near Sousiya, the documentary No Other Land This is followed by a young Palestinian struggling against what the UN describes forced displacement of the villagers.
This village, from where the Basel man comes from, has been declared a Military Operations Zone from Israel. After a long judicial battle, the Israeli Supreme Court justified the Israeli army in May 2022, a decision that paved the way for eight villages to be expelled where the Armed Forces wanted to create a firing scope.
The settlement of the West Bank by Israel is often characterized by the UN illegal under international law. In the area, occupied by Israel after the six -day war in 1967, there are some three million Palestinians and about half a million Israeli settlers