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Hamdan Ballal, co-director of Oscar winning documentary ‘No other land’, has been attacked by Israeli migrants at West Bank occupied. People present at the scene said that people beat the director and then took him into custody by the Israeli army.

Activists of a Jewish group ‘Center for Jewish Non Violence’ said that dozens of people attacked the village of Palestinian named Susia in the Masafar Yatta area and destroyed the property.

The activists said that they attacked Hamdan Ballal, one of the co-directors of the documentary, causing bleeding from his head. He told that when he was being treated in an ambulance, then the soldiers took him and another Palestinian man into custody. The soldiers have not been known about where they went with them.

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The documentary got an Oscar

The Israeli army said that it was investigating the episode, but it did not immediately comment. This year, the Oscar winning no other land shows the struggle of the residents of Masafar Yatta, who won the Oscar for the best documentary, which prevent the Israeli army from demolishing their villages. It has two Palestinian co-director, Ballal and Basal Adra, both residents of Masafar Yatta. The film has two Israeli directors, Yoval Abraham and Rachel Tire.

Palestinian-Israeli’s joint production has won several international awards after the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024. This film has also created resentment in Israel and abroad. Miami Beach proposed to eliminate the lease of the movie theater where this documentary was shown.