Oscar-Winning Palestinian Director Hamdan Ballal Attacked And Arrested In West Bank
Hamdan Ballal Attacked: Hamdan Ballal sustained a bloody head injury, the activists said and was being treated.
Hamdan Ballal Attacked: Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was beaten in the occupied West Bank and detained by the Israeli military, it was reported. Activist group Center for Jewish Nonviolence said that a group of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta area and one of the victims of the alleged attack was Hamdan Ballal.
Hamdan Ballal sustained a bloody head injury, the activists said and was being treated. He has been detained along with a second Palestinian man and his whereabouts are currently unknown, they added.
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Hamdan Ballal’s ‘No Other Land’ co-director, Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, wrote on X about the incident. In a post, he wrote that Hamdan Ballal had also sustained a stomach injury, adding, “They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding."
A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) March 24, 2025
The movie ‘No Other Land’- co-directed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli director Rachel Szor with Yuval Abraham and Hamdan Ballal- depicts the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta. The film won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature following which Yuval Abraham said in an acceptance speech, “We made this film, Palestinians and Israelis, because together our voices are stronger. We see each other. The atrocious destruction of Gaza and its people, which must end. The Israeli hostages brutally taken in the crime of October 7, which must be freed."
He added, “When I look at Basel, I see my brother, but we are unequal. We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law. Basel is under military laws that destroy his life, and he cannot control. There is a different path, a political solution without ethnic supremacy, with national rights for both of our people."
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