The Oscar winner of the Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal believes that after the success of his film, he is intentionally attacked by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank No other countrywhich won the best documentary at the prestigious award ceremony at the beginning of this month.
“For this reason, they attack me,” he said in a telephone interview with CBC News, a day after being released from a police station in the Israeli settlement of Qiryat Arba near Hebron.
“They punish me because I will take this message (into the outside world),” he said from his house in Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills.
The film, which was brought together with the Palestinian Basel Adra and Israelis Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor with the Basel Basel.
Israel captured in 1967 from Jordan East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Today, around 500,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank alone, although they are considered, even though they are considered Illegally under international law through a large part of the world.
About three million Palestinians live in the West Bank, and the tensions escalated in the Gaza Strip during the war war.
Ballal said he was arrested after he had been beaten by a settler that he had identified as Shem Tov Luski and two soldiers, after turning Israeli settlers on Monday, harassing the Palestinian villagers.
He says his ordeal started around 6 p.m. when a roommate called in his home village of Susiya to draw him attention to the presence of the Israelis.
“When I arrived there, the settlers threw stones (wirent) stones and destroyed the water tank, the cars there,” he said.
When Ballal went to look after his own family, he said that he followed Luski and the two soldiers who were all armed, who continued to beat him, even when he had fallen to the ground.
He says his inquiries about medical help were ignored and he was finally connected and brought to a place where he was captured overnight.
Director says he feared that he would be killed
The head of the municipal council in Susiya says that the problems began when settlers attacked a meeting for Iftar that marks the end of daily fasting during Ramadan.
Activists of a group called Center for Jewish Freedom of Power, which was called to the scene by villagers, said they were also attacked by settlers and showed video to various news agencies.
Luski, the settler identified by Ballal, lives in a nearby settlement outlook called Ancient Susiya. The Israeli human rights group B’telem documented him last summer bothering Ballal and other Palestinians.
Ballal says he was once threatened by Luski and other settlers, but this time he was really afraid of being killed.
“After the Oscar it got worse,” he said.
In response to a request from CBC News, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that his soldiers had transferred three Palestinian “prisoners” to the police for suspicion of rock damage, damage to property and endangered regional security.
The explanation also described the claim that they had been beaten “completely unfounded” in an IDF home and said that the IDF armed forces made it easier for the prisoners after their transfer to the Israel police.
“Why we made this film”
According to human rights groups, in particular in “outposts” that are connected to larger settlement blocks, Palestinians living in the occupied areas were confronted in the occupied areas with increasing violence by hard Jewish settlers.
Palestinians, rights organizations and activist groups who send monitors to the West Bank say that the Israeli army regularly does not indicate the behavior of the settlers intimidatingly and intimidating.
The war in Gaza triggered an increase in violence in the West Bank, with the Israeli military carried out military operations, in which hundreds of Palestinians and displaced tens of thousands were killed. The settlers and the Palestinian attacks on Israelis have had an increase in the violence of the settlers.
When asked if he believes his film could change things, said Ballal, he hoped.
“So far nothing has changed on the ground,” he said. “But that’s why we made this film.”
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No other country won the Oscar for the best documentation on Sunday. It tells the story of a Palestinian community, which was driven out by Israel to make room for a military firing area in the West Bank. Two of his directors, the Palestinian Basel Adra and the Israeli Yuval Abraham, spoke to Matt Galloway about their struggle for this story in Israel and beyond in December.
