Israeli settlers beat one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar winner film No other country On Monday in the occupied West Bank, before he was arrested by the Israeli military, one of his co -defenders and other witnesses.
According to lawyer Lea Tsemel, filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was one of three Palestinians who were detained in the village of Susiya. The police informed her that the Palestinians are recorded on a military base for medical treatment, and she said she didn’t talk to them.
Basel Adra, another co-director, experienced the detention and said, around two dozen settlers-old masked masked, some wore weapons, some in Israeli uniform handles. Soldiers who arrived addressed their weapons on the Palestinians while Siedler continued to throw stones.
“We came back from the Oscars and every day when we have an attack on us,” ADRA told the Associated Press. “This could be your revenge on us when we made the film. It feels like punishment.”
The Israeli military said that three Palestinians had been imprisoned that were suspected of spinning rocks on armed forces, and an Israeli civilian who was involved in a “violent confrontation” between Israelis and Palestinians – an assertion surveyed by the AP. The military said that it transferred it to the Israeli police survey and evacuated an Israeli citizen from the region in order to maintain medical treatment.
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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 displaced 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.
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No other countryWho won the Oscar for the best documentary this year, records the struggle of Masafer Yatta’s residents in the occupied West Bank to prevent the Israeli military from tearing down its villages. Ballal and Adra, both from Masafar Yatta, made the common Palestinian Israeli production with Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.
The film won a number of international prizes, starting at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024. It also pulled in Israel and abroad when Miami Beach suggested briefly to end the rental agreement of a cinema that showed the documentary.
ADRA said that settlers entered the village on Monday evening, shortly after the residents had broken the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan the daily fast. A settler – who, according to ADRA, often attacks the village – went with the military to Ballal’s house and soldiers shot up in the air. Ballal’s wife heard her husband being beaten outside and “I die” according to ADRA.
ADRA then saw how the soldiers led Ballal with handcuffs and eyes, led from his house to a military vehicle. When he spoke to the Associated Press by phone, he said that Ballal’s blood was still injected onto the floor on his own front door.
Some details of Adra’s report were supported by another eyewitness that spoke for fear of reprisals on the condition of anonymity.
A group of 10 to 20 masked settlers with stones and sticks also attacked activists with the Center for Jewish violence, smashed their car windows and meandered tires to flee them in front of the area, one of the activists on site, Josh Kimelman, told the ap.
The video provided by the Center for Jewish Functional Frechain showed that a masked settler pushed and swung his fists from two activists from the group in a dusty field at night. The activists rush back to their car when rocks can be heard against the vehicle.
Israel conquered the west bank in the Middle East of 1967 together with the Gaza Strip and the East Jerusalem. The Palestinians want all three for their future condition and consider settlement growth as a great obstacle to a two-state solution.
The Israeli military described Masafer Yatta in the 1980s as a training zone for live fires and ordered to break out the residents, mostly Arab Bedouins. Around 1,000 inhabitants have largely remained, but soldiers regularly move to houses, tents, water tanks and olive gardens – and the Palestinians fear that direct displacement could come at any time.
