The filmmaker Hamdan Ballal He was assaulted by Israeli settlers in the busy West Bank and taken by Israeli soldiers on Monday (24), his colleagues and witnesses said. This happened a few weeks after the director Win the Oscar for the documentary “No Other Land” .
He co-directed the feature film that tells the story of the continuous demolition by the Israeli authorities of Masafer Yatta a set of villages in the mountains of Hebron, the West Bank, where Basel Adra, one of the directors, lives with his family. Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor also sign the direction.
The documentary follows Israel’s government attempt to force the residents to force, having claimed the land to a Military Training Center and the field of shooting in 1981.
Spectators see the local playground being demolished, the murder of Adra’s brother by Israeli soldiers and other attacks by Jewish settlers while the community tries to survive.
Hours before the film’s victory at Oscar on March 2, residents of the West Bank area portrayed in the documentary were attacked by Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli forces, the Palestinian official news agency Wafa said.
Israeli soldiers detained three people in the area and settlers attacked residents of Khirbet Asfi village in Masafer Yatta, throwing stones, destroying solar panels and damaging water tanks, Wafa said, citing the head of Susiya village council, Jihad Nawaja.
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