Israeli authorities They have released director Hamdan Ballal After spending the night stopped after beating at the hands of Iarael settlers in Susiya, the city of the West Bank in which it resides.
“After being handcuffed all night and being beaten in a military base, Hamdam Ballal He is free and is about to return home With his family “he announced in X Yuval Abraham, co -director of the winning documentary of an Oscar ‘no Other Land’.
In the morning, your relatives They still had news of him and Abraham said that the police had not allowed his lawyer to talk to him.
Last night, Abraham gave the alarm about the detention of his partner ensuring that A group of settlers had assaulted him. “The soldiers (Israelis) invaded the ambulance they called and took it, we have no news of him since then” he also wrote in X.
“The military has invaded the ambulance he called and They have taken it when I was bleeding. We do not know anything about him since then or if he is receiving medical treatment or what is happening to him, “he added. Ballal was injured” including blood and swelling “and was transferred in an ambulance, but Israeli military arrested him and is now in an unknown whereabouts.
“The group of assailants came with batons, knives and at least one assault rifle; many were also masked. Five American Jewish activists went to the place to document the attack and were violently attacked by the settlers,” he added.
As a consequence, Three Palestinians were arrested for the launch of stones at the security forces and an Israeli citizen who “participated in the violent clashes.”
The documentary ‘No Other Land’ is the work of four directors: Ballal, Adra, Abraham and Rachel Szor, and reflects the situation of Adra, Resident of Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian village located at the southern end of the West Bank. The film, awarded in the Oscar category for the best documentary feature film, reflects the destruction of the town at the hands of the Israeli forces, the lack of opportunities and the risk of expulsion from their lands.
The International Court of Justice determined last summer that The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is illegal And he appealed to Israel to evict the settlers -who exceed the 700,000 -eliminate the settlements and remove the wall that surrounds this Palestinian territory.
