Israeli settlers assault Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning movie, say activists 

As Hamdan Ballal was being handled in an ambulance, troopers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the group mentioned. File
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Israeli settlers beat up one of many Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning movie “No Different Land” within the occupied West Financial institution on Monday (March 24, 2025), and he was then detained by the Israeli army, activists on the scene mentioned.

Dozens of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya within the Masafer Yatta space, destroying property, mentioned the activist group Centre for Jewish Nonviolence.

They attacked Hamdan Ballal, one of many documentary’s co-directors, leaving his head bleeding, the activists mentioned. As he was being handled in an ambulance, troopers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the group mentioned. It mentioned his whereabouts have been now unknown.

“No Different Land,” which gained the Oscar this yr for greatest documentary, chronicles the wrestle by residents of Masafer Yatta to cease the Israeli army from demolishing their villages. It has two Palestinian co-directors, Ballal and Basel Adra, each residents of Masafar Yatta, and two Israeli administrators, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.