Director Hamdan Balla, one of the Palestinian managers behind the Oscar -winning documentary “No Land”, was detained on Monday in the West Bank occupied by the Israeli army after he was brutally attacked by settlers.
Israeli journalist Yoval Ibrahim, who participated in the direction of “no other land”, The two wrote on x That “a group of settlers only gave” his collaborator. “They hit him, wounded in his head and stomach, and bleed.”
“The soldiers invaded the ambulance that he called and took it,” Ibrahim added in his post, who was shared in English and Hebrew. “There has been no sign since then.”
Anna Liebman, a representative of the center of the group active of the Jewish violence that recorded and participating a video of the attack on Monday, told the Times via social media that more than ten settlers attacked the Palestinian village in the Masifer Yata area, and destroyed property. During the attack on Monday evening, Al -Balel was “wounded by settlers.” “He was receiving treatment in an ambulance for injuries in his head, which included swelling and bleeding, when” the soldiers came and took him and two other Palestinian men from Susia, “Liebman said,” Liebman said.
“We do not know where he or his condition,” she added.
The Jewish Navigational Center shared the dashcam clips Blouse From someone pays three people and you are one of the group members. The video later displays a person – his face is covered by a mask – to many others, choosing a body from the ground and throwing it on the car, destroying the windshield. video It is recorded and shared by Lippman alternative angle for confrontation.
Activist Josh Kimmelman, who was present during the confrontation, said, said. Associated Press Monday, “We do not know where Hamdan was because he was transferred in the eyes of the eyes.”
Ibrahim did not immediately respond to the Times request for an additional comment.
In a joint statement in the Times, an Israeli defense spokesman said that “the violent confrontation” erupted in Sousse after several people had damaged that they were “terrorists” on rocks on Israeli citizens and caused damage to their cars. The statement said that the incident participated in “the rocks of mutual rocks between the Palestinians and the Israelis at the scene of the accident.” The Israeli Defense Army said that its members and the Israeli police had responded to “disperse the confrontation”, and that the people who described them as “terrorists” began to throw rocks on their way.
IDF and the Israeli police detained three Palestinians and an Israeli person claiming to be involved in the confrontation. The four detainees were transferred to further interrogation by the Israel police, and an Israeli person was evacuated for medical treatment, according to the statement. The IDF also denied allegations that the Palestinians were detained from inside an ambulance.
The Times confirmed that Ballal was already among the three people detained on Monday evening. He was detained on suspicion of throwing rocks in the Israeli Defense Army and the police.
Support for Ballow flowed on Monday afternoon, with his detention news spread. Palestinian activist Basel Adra, who also participated in the guidance and appears in “no other land”, ” Tweet About Ballal fears and shared a picture of a person with both hands behind their backs into a vehicle decorated with an Israeli flag. He said that his collaborator “is still missing after his kidnapping, and they were wounded and bleed.”
He added: “This is the way they erase Massifer Yata.”
The international documentary. Sadr a statement In support of Al -Balel, who claim to “attacked violently and kidnapped him in the West Bank,” they urged his release. Missive also called on the family and community community to “be aware of the status and location of it and justify its detention.”
“There is no other land,” directed by Ibrahim, Baliel, Adra and Israeli director Rachel Zour, is a terrible documentary film that narrates Israel’s demolition of the Palestinian villages in Massifer Yata to make way for Israeli military training, and the turmoil of families and societies. The film won the Documentary Film Award at the 2025 Academy Awards.
Recently, “no other land” has found itself in the center of tension in the scene of cinema in Miami Beach. Earlier this month, the Mayor of Miami Beach Stephen Miner threatened to withdraw grant financing from cinema O and end the rental contract in the property owned by the city if the documentary is shown. In a letter sent to the cinema house, Meiner described the movie “One -Nice Advertising attack on the Jewish people who are not compatible with the values of our city and their inhabitants.”
Miner pulled his threats last week.
In a statement, Ibrahim returned to Miner’s previous criticism that “there is no other land” that was terribly anti -Semitic. “
“When the mayor uses the word” anti -Semitism “to silence the Palestinians and the Israelis who are proudly opposed to the profession and racist separation, and fights for justice and equality, it empties it from the meaning. I find that this is very dangerous.
“Control is always wrong,” Abraham added. “We have made this film to reach us fans from a wide range of political opinions. I think that once the cruel reality of the occupation in Masifer Yata in the West Bank, it becomes impossible to justify it, and for this reason the mayor is afraid of” any other land. “This will not work.
Employee writer Times Mark Olsen contributed to this report.