‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal About to Be Free and Return to Family After Being Attacked and Arrested in West Bank, Yuval Abraham Says

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Updated March 25 9:12am ET “No Other Land” co-director Yuval Abraham has said that Hamdan Ballal is “free and is astir to spell location to his family” aft helium “was handcuffed and blindfolded each nighttime successful an service basal portion 2 soldiers bushed him up connected the floor.”

Updated March 24 7:00 PM ET Hamdan Ballal, 1 of the Oscar-winning co-directors of the Israeli-Palestinian documentary “No Other Land,” was attacked by settlers portion successful the West Bank and past taken by soldiers, according to Ballal’s different co-director Yuval Abraham. The Guardian corroborated it with a study Monday that Ballal was arrested by the Israeli subject aft being attacked by a radical of 15 masked settlers who attacked his location successful Susya successful the Masafer Yatta country southbound of Hebron.

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Abraham connected Monday, March 24 archetypal posted connected X that Ballal was “lynched” by a radical of settlers, presumably referring to Israeli settlers surviving connected Palestinian onshore successful the West Bank, and was past arrested by soldiers who “invaded” his ambulance. He added determination has been nary motion of Ballal since. [Editor’s Note: Later, Abraham tweeted that his “use of ‘lynched’ was a mistranslation from Hebrew (English isn’t my archetypal language).”

“A radical of settlers conscionable lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our movie ‘No Other Land.’ They bushed him and helium has injuries successful his caput and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance helium called, and took him. No motion of him since,” Abraham posted connected X.

In a consequent station written successful Hebrew and translated via X, Abraham said, “A radical of settlers attacked the location of Hamdan Ballal, who directed the Oscar-winning movie ‘No Other Land’ with me. They bushed him successful the caput and each implicit his body. While wounded and bleeding, soldiers entered the ambulance helium had called and arrested him. He has since disappeared and it is unclear whether helium is receiving aesculapian attraction oregon what is happening to him.”

Shortly aft his archetypal post, Abraham shared different disturbing video of a masked antheral who helium claimed was portion of the “lynch mob” that attacked Ballal’s village, adding that Ballal’s determination is inactive unknown. The video shows the antheral attacking a radical of American activists (it’s unclear wherefore the activists are successful the region), cracking their car’s windshield with a stone.

Several of those American activists described the country to the Guardian, saying that the settlers threw stones and destroyed the h2o vessel adjacent Ballal’s house, that his car’s tires were slashed and his windshield was broken, and that a radical of soldiers arrived connected the country alongside different settlers dressed successful subject uniforms, who past handed Ballal implicit to the military.

The film’s different co-director Basel Adra besides shared a photograph from the scene, saying helium was with Ballal’s 7-year-old son.

‘I’m lasting with Karam, Hamdan’s 7-year-old son, adjacent the humor of Hamdan’s successful his house, aft settlers lynched him. Hamdan, co-director of our movie ‘No Other Land,’ is inactive missing aft soldiers abducted him, injured and bleeding. This is however they erase Masafer Yatta,” Adra wrote.

Adra spoke to The Guardian and said the unit successful the portion is “increasing” and settlers onslaught “almost daily,” starring him to wonderment if it’s “revenge” successful effect to “No Other Land” winning the Oscar.

“There were dozens of settlers unneurotic with the Israeli soldiers and they were threatening america with weapons,” helium told The Guardian Monday. “The constabulary were determination from the opening and did not intervene. While the soldiers were pointing their weapons astatine us, the settlers started attacking the houses of the Palestinians.”

Ballal is simply a Palestinian lensman and husbandman from Susya, which is simply a colony successful Area C of the West Bank. Ballal conscionable six hours anterior to Abraham’s station connected X shared a photograph and caption connected Instagram from Susya, which described different settler onslaught against 3 Palestinian shepherds and showed a photograph of a shepherd who helium said was hospitalized with a caput and receptor wounded caused by a stone. He wrote successful a abstracted station from a week anterior that Susya is “under continuous violent attacks” including 10 antithetic terrible assaults reported since the commencement of 2025.

“No Other Land” won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature earlier this month, wherever Abraham and Ballal were some successful attendance on with their different co-director Basel Adra. The movie has been successful the quality again of precocious aft the Mayor of Miami Beach called connected a section creation location theatre to halt screening the film, believing it to beryllium antisemitic, and sparking a nationalist outcry.

IndieWire volition supply updates of this communicative arsenic they travel to light. We person reached retired to reps for Cinetic Media, which has handled publicity for the film.

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