Jew Activists shared this Oscarscar winner Palestinian Cinema director Hamdan Ballal was attacked by Israeli settlers on Monday at the busy the West Bank. The activist group, a Jewish non -violence center, said that Ballal was also detained by the Israeli military after being bloody of the attack.
What happened to Hamdan Ballal?
Ballal was being treated in an ambulance after being attacked by the settlers in Susiya, a Palestinian village in the area of Masafer Yatta, but the soldiers detained him shortly afterwards, according to activists, according to the Associated press.
“We don’t know where Hamdan is in because they took him in a blind,” said activist Josh Kimelman to The Associated Press, for News ABC.
Sources added that Ballal, which is one of the co -directors of the recent Oscarscar winning documentary No other landIt was attacked by about 20 masked settlers along with other Jewish activists. The attackers defeated the group with stones and sticks, and then broke the car windows and cut off the tires, according to activists. The center of the non -Violence Jewish also showed a video of one of the settlers rotating his fists in a couple of activists when the chaos deployed at night.
“Enter!” A person feels he says in the video while the group tries to dodge the rocks.
The driver also feels saying “the car window was broken” while trying to get out as quickly as possible.
What the co -director Yuval Abraham says about what happened
Yuval Abraham, one of the other co -directors of No other landHe told X (Before Twitter): “A group of settlers just Linxa Hamdan Ballal, co -director of our movie No other land. He was struck and has injuries to the head and the stomach, bloody. The soldiers invaded the ambulance he called and took him. There has been no sign of him since then. “
Why do the Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Masafer Yatta?
According to the AP, the Israeli army expelled residents of Masafer Yatta in the 1980’s after designating the area as a training area. While some residents remained in the area, the soldiers continued to destroy their homes.
What is “no other land” about?
No other land It was also directed by Abraham, Basel Adra and Rachel Szor.
For its official description: Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist in Masafer Yatta, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community for Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as the soldiers destroy the houses of the families: the largest act of forced transfer ever performed in the occupied West Bank. They believe on roads with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle and for more than half a decade fight against expulsion as he approached. Its complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, who lives under a brutal military and Yuval occupation, without restrictions and free. This film, from a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest and darkest moments of the region, as an act of creative resistance to apartheid and a search for a path to equality and justice.
In a previous statement of the directors, the four said: “We are doing this movie together, a group of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers and filmmakers, because we want to stop the continuous expulsion of the Community of Masafer Yatta, and to resist the reality of the reality of the reality that we were born, from the contrary, unequal. We can only call something radically different, which in its nucleus is a proposal for an alternative way.
