Oscar -winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal released from custody | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian Co-Director of Oscar’s documentary film There is no other country which the Israeli army detained after being attacked by settlers.
In the post on the Social Media Platform on Tuesday, his colleague K-Greenman Yuval Abraham said: “After putting foxes all night and beat up in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and will soon go home to his family.”
The Associated Press news agency said his journalists also saw Ballal and two other Palestinian people leaving the police station where they held themselves in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba on the occupied west coast.
Ballal had bruises on his face and blood on his clothes, AP reported.
Ballal said he was detained at a military basis and forced to sleep under the freezing air conditioning.
“I was connected to the eyes for 24 hours,” he told AP.
“All night when I was freezing. I was a room, I couldn’t see anything … I heard the voice of a soldier laughing at me.”
Lea Tsemel, a lawyer who represented three men, said they received only minimum care for their injuries from the attack and did not have access to them several hours after their arrest. She said earlier that they were charged with throwing stones at the young settlers, the allegations they deny.
Balal and other directors of any other country, which investigate The struggle for life under Israeli occupation posted the stage at the 97th Award of the Los Angeles Academy at the beginning of this month, when the film won the Oscar Award for Best Documentation role.
On Monday, about two ten settlers – some masked, some carry rifles and some in military uniforms – attacked the village of the western coast of Susiya in the evening, because the inhabitants quickly broke during the Muslim Saint Moon of Ramadan.
The soldiers who arrived showed rifles in Palestinians, while the settlers continued to throw stones, residents for AP said.
Lamia Ballal, the director’s wife, said she heard her husband beaten in front of their house as she got inside with their three children. She heard him scream, “I’m dying!” and calling for an ambulance.
When she looked out the window, she saw three men in uniforms beating ballala with asses of their rifles and other persons in civilian clothes she seemed to shoot violence.
“Of course, after Oscar, they attacked us more,” Lamia said. “I felt fear.”
The AMNESTY International Human Rights Group called for responsibility for the attack.
“Hamdan Billal forcibly disappeared by Israeli soldiers after being attacked by Israeli immigrants who attacked Palestinians … He is now released, but those who have performed the attacks must be responsible,” the post on X said.
Ballal said he was attacked by a famous settler who threatened him in the past.
The settler can be seen with other masked men in a widely circular video from August in which they threaten Balal. “This is my country, God gave it to me,” says the immigrant in the video, in which he also uses profane and tries to get Ballal to fight him. “It won’t be nice next time,” the settler says in the video.
On Tuesday, a small blood object outside the Ballal family home could be seen, and the windshield and windows broke. Neighbors pointed to a nearby water container with a hole in the side, which they said were to break through them.
Basel Adra-Josh one of the co-director of film, which is a distinguished Palestinian activist in the area-said that there was a huge climb in the attacks of settlers and Israeli forces from the Oscar victory.
“No one can do anything to stop the pogroms, and the soldiers are just there to make it easier and help the attacks,” he said.
“We live in dark days here, in Gaza and all the west coast … No one stops it.”
The Israeli army announced on Monday that she had arrested three Palestinians suspected of throwing rocks at forces and one Israeli civilian involved in what he described as a violent conflict.