Oscar-winning Palestinian director released by Israeli forces in the West Bank

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…

Oscar-winning Palestinian director of ‘No Other Land’ released from Israeli detention after being assaulted - Egypt Independent

The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, taken away by Israeli soldiers and detained overnight, according to his family, friends, colleagues, eyewitnesses and lawyer. On Tuesday afternoon, following his release from detention, Ballal’s lawyer Leah Tzemel said that he had been “arbitrarily” held in police detention in Kiryat Arba’a, an Israeli sett…

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Stamping out antisemitism March 27 (27 Adar 5785)It was another headspinning news week in the Jewish community.✡️ “No Other Land” director Hamdan Ballal and two other Palestinians were allegedly detained and beaten by the IDF early this week. The Academy Award-winning documentary is described as a depiction of “the destruction of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli authorities and the unlikely friendship that blossoms between Palestinian ac…

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…