‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
Posted by Ed on March 25, 2025, 2:11 am
‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested The film is an Oscar-winning documentary collaboration by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.
Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank after he was beaten and injured by Israeli settlers, his fellow co-director Yuval Abraham said on X.
“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,” Abraham said in a post.
“Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since,” he added.
A video provided by the Center for Jewish Nonviolence showed a masked settler shoving and swinging his fists at two activists from the group in a dusty field at night.
The activists rush back to their car. “Get in, get in!” one shouts, and they duck inside as the thuds of rocks can be heard hitting the car.
“Car window was broken,” the driver says as they drive off.
A group of 10 to 20 masked settlers also attacked Jewish activists at the scene with stones and sticks, smashed their car windows and slashed their tyres.
“We don’t know where Hamdan is because he was taken away in a blindfold,” Josh Kimelman, one of the activists who was at the scene, told The Associated Press news agency.
The Israeli military said it was looking into the episode but did not immediately comment.
No Other Land, a collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, follows activist Basel Adra as he risks arrest and violence to document the destruction of his hometown, Masafer Yatta, by the Israeli military.
The film has won a string of international awards, starting at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024. It has also drawn ire in Israel and abroad, as when Miami Beach briefly proposed ending the lease of a movie theatre that screened the documentary.
I'm going to follow Abby Martin's suggestion and refer to them as armed, homicidal, burglars rather than the tame sounding settlers.
They really are the scum of the earth. I doubt whether this is coincidental and just one of their regular attacks which they should be smashed to pieces for but never get even a single word of condemnation.
I'm so tired of this lunatic state and it's lunatic zealots.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Re: ‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
"I'm so tired of this lunatic state and it's lunatic zealots."
You and me both. Sick to the back teeth of the never-ending crimes of these vicious full blown nazis and then the never-ending mealy mouthed, weasel word spinning msm hacks twisting like maypoles to provide excuses and justifications for them...still pissing up your leg and saying it's raining. Proper Alice Through The Looking Glass stuff, and it gets more fekking unbelievable every day.
Re: Same for me. Sickened by it and sick of the depravity and impunity. nm
on March 25, 2025, 2:11 am