Joal Abraham, one of the film makers behind the Oscar -winning documentary “No Land”, criticized the academy for not commenting on the attack of the coach of his Palestinian partner Hamdan Bali.
The Israeli authorities issued on Tuesday after Ibrahim wrote the previous day that he had disappeared after he was attacked. Abraham said: “A group of settlers just prepared two donkeys of Bali, the co -director of our movie” No another land. ” The soldiers invaded the ambulance that he called, and took it. There is no sign since then. “
Reports on the ballet attack and its detention sparked a petition calling for his release and data from organizations such as the International Documentary Association. On Wednesday, Ibrahim summoned the academy In a post on x To not talk to it.
“Unfortunately, the United States Academy, which awarded the Academy Award three weeks ago, rejected Hamdan Bali publicly while being beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and settlers,” he wrote. “The European Academy expressed its support, as he did countless awards and other festivals. It prompted many members of the American Academy – especially in the documentary branch – to a statement, but it was ultimately rejected. We were told that since the other Palestinians were beaten in the settlers’ attack, this may be considered unrelated to the film, so they did not feel the need to respond.”
Ibrahim continued: “In other words, while Hamdan was clearly targeted for not“ any other land ”(the soldiers recalled over Oscar during his torture), but he was also targeted for being a Palestinian – like countless others every day they ignore, and this seems to be what change Useful and works as a deterrent for the future.
The academy did not respond immediately on diverseRequest to comment.
Mine, Bali ABC News said From the hospital “fearful”, adding: “I feel, when they attack me, I will lose my life.” Ballal Abc News told that he was severely beaten by Jewish settlers at his home on Monday, outside the village of Susiya.
“It was a difficult and difficult attack,” Ballal told ABC News. “You know, I feel that I will die, because this attack was very difficult, and I grow from everywhere. I am crying from my heart deeply. I feel pain in my body. So, they continue my attacker like 15-20 minutes.” Ballal also confirmed the presence of “gun soldiers”.
A statement by the Israeli police said that the ballerina and other Palestinians were imprisoned “on the circumstances that include not to contact other people concerned and self -trainees.”
There were also allegations of stone throwing, which is what Bali denies. “I did not throw the stones, I did not face any problems with the settlers,” Ballal told ABC News. “The settlers came to attack me and beat me. That’s it.”
According to Associated PressBali was “held at an army base, blindfolded for 24 hours and forced to sleep under the frozen air conditioner.”
“All my body is pain,” Bal told AP. “I heard the voices of the soldiers, they were laughing at me … I heard” Oscar “but I did not speak Hebrew.
the The Associated Press mentioned The activists from the center of the Jewish violence saw Bali being beaten by the Israeli settlers at the scene, describing that “a group of 10-20 convincing settlers attacked it and other Jewish activists with stones and sticks, and shattered the windows of their cars and lowered their frame.”
On Tuesday, a group of international filmmakers, including Alex Jibni and Crystin Fashion A. Seam to launch BaliSaying that “the Israeli army was forcibly removed from an ambulance in the wake of a brutal attack by the settlers, and then detained them later without clear information regarding its location.”
When the petition was collecting Steam with more than 4,500 signatures, Ibrahim posted on X that Ballal was released. “After the hands have been caught all night and beaten at a military base, Hamdan Bali is now free and is about to return home for his family.” Posted on X on Tuesday.
“There is no other land,” which was made by an Israeli -Palestinian group, including Ibrahim, Ballel, Bazel Edra and Rashil Zour, followed a Palestinian family living in the West Bank where their home is destroyed by the Israeli government and face displacement. But in the midst of the terrible conditions, ADRA and Abraham, an Israeli journalist, is an unexpected friendship and works together to document the story.
The film was first shown at the Berlin Film Festival last year, where he won the best documentary jury awards. The documentary continued to get great attention in the autumn festival circuit, where he played in the Toronto, Vancouver and New York cinematic festivals. Nevertheless, the film still has no American distributor, as film makers are driving to shoot the film in New York City on January 31 and Los Angeles on February 7.