Key Points
- Oscar-winning filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was attacked by Israeli settlers on the occupied West Bank.
- Ballal’s lawyer says he has been held and folded at night without charging.
- Jewish activists say that Israeli settlers have attacked them in the same village.
“It’s crazy, you can introduce your family, your children in the house and you have to protect them,” he said.
“This is not the first time that the settlers attacked our meeting, but the attacks increased in the recent period,” said Nawajaa, adding that the settlers had stolen about 10 sheep from the village during the attack.
Hamdan Ballal (left) won an Oscar for the best documentary feature film for no other country. Source: AFP / Monica Schipper
Monday’s incident was the last in which Israeli settlers were accused of the robberies of Palestinian or Bedouin villages and camps on the West Bank, sometimes to steal cattle.
Asked for an update about the state and status of Ballal on Tuesday, the Israeli police sent the statement that was first published by the army the previous night.
Basel Adra, one of the other co-director of the film, said he believed that the settlers had brought the army to the family house as revenge for the image of the film of the Masafer Yatta area near where the incident of Monday took place.
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