Israeli settlers attack Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning movie, say activists 

As Hamdan Ballal was being handled in an ambulance, troopers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the group mentioned. File
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Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning movie “No Other Land” within the occupied West Bank on Monday (March 24, 2025), and he was then detained by the Israeli army, activists on the scene mentioned.

Dozens of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya within the Masafer Yatta space, destroying property, mentioned the activist group Centre for Jewish Nonviolence.

They attacked Hamdan Ballal, one of the documentary’s co-directors, leaving his head bleeding, the activists mentioned. As he was being handled in an ambulance, troopers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the group mentioned. It mentioned his whereabouts had been now unknown.

“No Other Land,” which received the Oscar this yr for greatest documentary, chronicles the wrestle by residents of Masafer Yatta to cease the Israeli army from demolishing their villages. It has two Palestinian co-directors, Ballal and Basel Adra, each residents of Masafar Yatta, and two Israeli administrators, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.