US EditionOscar-winning Palestinian director released by Israeli forces in the West Bank
- Hamdan Ballal, the Oscar-winning director and co-director of "No Other Land," was injured during an attack by Israeli settlers in Susiya, West Bank, on March 25, 2025, according to local official Jihad Nawajaa.
- Ballal was arrested by Israeli police along with two others after settlers attacked a gathering for Iftar, resulting in multiple injuries.
- The Israeli military stated that troops intervened after Palestinians threw rocks, leading to the arrest of three Palestinians and one Israeli civilian involved in the conflict.
- Activist Basel Adra suggested that Ballal may have been targeted due to the film’s portrayal of the area, highlighting tensions over the depiction of Israeli actions against Palestinians.
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Academy members support Oscar-winner Palestinian Hamdan Ballal
Hamdan Ballal holds an Oscar for ‘No Other Land’ documentary in Los Angeles, March 2, 2025. Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian director of the film “No Other Land,” winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary on March 2, bestowed by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, was brutally beaten . . . Continue reading Academy members support Oscar-winner Palestinian Hamdan Ballal at Workers.org
‘No Other Land’ co-director Hamdan Ballal, bloodied and bruised, released from Israeli custody
Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian filmmakers who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” is free. He was released Tuesday from Israeli custody, less than a day after Israeli military and police detained him and three other people following a brutal attack Monday by settlers in the occupied West Bank. Ballal was released from an Israeli police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba. He had bruises on his fac…
A Palestinian Oscar-winner's arrest shocked the world. For these Jewish activists, it was terrifyingly normal
Raviv Rose was sitting down to the iftar meal on Monday with their hosts in Umm al Kheir, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, when they got a call that the village of Susya, home of Hamdan Ballal, one of the Oscar-winning directors of the documentary No Other Land, was being attacked by settlers. Rose and their fellow Jewish solidarity activists received at least three such calls per day, about settlers menacing shepherds and their flock, va…
Palestinian Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Freed After Being Assaulted by Israeli Settlers & Soldiers
In the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was released Tuesday from Israeli detention after being brutally attacked on Monday, first by a mob of masked Israeli settlers and then by Israeli soldiers. Three weeks ago, Ballal won an Oscar for co-directing the documentary “No Other Land” about violent Israeli settlers trying to seize Ballal’s community in Masafer Yatta. Ballal said Israeli soldiers held him overnight blindfo…
’No Other Land’ filmmaker released after settler assault, arrest
Israeli police on Tuesday released Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land', a day after he was violently assaulted by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and then detained by Israeli forces while injured and bleeding. Ballal was attacked by a group of 15 to 20 Israeli settlers in the village of Susya, who beat him and targeted his home, according to eyewitnesses. Instead of arresti…
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