'No Other Land' filmmaker beaten by Israeli settlers and detained by soldiers, co-director and activists allege

Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, 1 of the 2 Palestinian directors down the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was detained Monday successful the occupied West Bank by the Israeli subject aft helium was attacked by settlers, according to his Israeli co-director and Jewish activists.

Journalist Yuval Abraham, who co-directed “No Other Land,” wrote Monday connected X that “a radical of settlers conscionable lynched” his collaborator. “They bushed him and helium has injuries successful his caput and stomach, bleeding.”

“Soldiers invaded the ambulance helium called, and took him,” Abraham added successful his post, which was shared successful English and Hebrew. “No motion of him since.”

Anna Lippman, a delegate for the activistic radical Center for Jewish Nonviolence who recorded and shared video of the onslaught Monday, told The Times that much than a twelve settlers attacked the Palestinian colony Susiya successful the Masafer Yatta area, destroying property. During the onslaught Monday evening, Ballal was “injured by settlers.” He was receiving attraction successful an ambulance for injuries to his head, which included swelling and bleeding, erstwhile “soldiers came and took him and 2 different Palestinian men from Susiya,” Lippman said.

“We bash not cognize wherever helium is oregon his condition,” she added Monday.

The Center for Jewish Nonviolence shared dashcam footage connected Bluesky of idiosyncratic shoving 3 radical and punching 1 subordinate of the group. The video aboriginal shows a idiosyncratic — whose look is covered by a disguise — joined by respective others, picking an entity from the crushed and hurling it astatine the vehicle, destroying the windshield. Video recorded and shared by Lippman shows an alternate space of the confrontation.

Activist Josh Kimelman, who was besides contiguous during the confrontation, told the Associated Press Monday “we don’t cognize wherever Hamdan is due to the fact that helium was taken distant successful a blindfold.”

Abraham did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for further comment. A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces did not instantly corroborate Ballal’s arrest.

“No Other Land,” directed by Abraham, Ballal, Palestinian activistic Basel Adra and Israeli filmmaker Rachel Szor, is simply a harrowing documentary that chronicles Israel’s demolition of Palestinian villages successful Masafer Yatta to marque mode for an Israeli subject grooming ground, displacing families and communities. The movie won the documentary grant astatine the 2025 Academy Awards.