Before he was arrested, Hamdan Ballal was beaten by a dozen Israeli settlers in a village of the West Bank.
The Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballalwinner of an Oscar Award for the documentary No other country In this year’s edition he was attacked on Monday by Israeli settlers in Masafer Yatta, in BankAs put on the jaw by the CO director of the film, the Israeli Yuval Abraham. After the attack he was transferred to an ambulance, but Israeli army arrested him and is now in an unknown place of residence.
“A group of settlers has just Lincha Hamdan Ballal, co -director of our film No other country. They attacked his house, they hit him over his body and have head and abdominal injury. Bleed, “said Abraham in his account in X.
“The army has invaded the ambulance that called and they took it when he was bleeding. We have known nothing about him since then or get medical treatment or what happens to him,” he added.
Abraham then published a video in which a masked person is seen foreign activists. “The masked settler who is seen in the video is part of the crowd that the people of Hamdan attacked. They kept attacking us activists and breaking their car with stones. We still don’t know where Hamdan is,” he explained.
The Israeli journalist has re -published a message in X of the Palestinian journalist Basel Adra, also co -director of No other countrywho tells the situation in Hamdan’s house. “I am with Karam, Hamdan’s 7 -year -old son, next to Hamdan’s Blood, in his house, after the settlers have beaten him a lot (…). This is how Masafer Yatta removed,” he said.
The documentary is led by four directors, Ballal, Adra, Abraham and Rachel Szor and reflects the situation of Adra, resident of Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian village on the south side of the western Jordoever. The tape, assigned in the Oscar category for the best long -term documentary, reflects the destruction of the city by the Israeli troops, the lack of opportunities and the risk of removal from their country.
Source: EITB

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