(25 Mar 2025)
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Masafer Yatta, West Bank – 25 March 2025
1. Lamia Ballal, wife of Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal, entering room
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Lamia Ballal, Ballal’s wife:
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"He (Ballal) was beaten by three people, one on of them was wearing white and was filming him. They almost surrounded all of the house and tried to break in on us. One of them was standing by the window, and they were banging on the door trying to get in."
3. Wide of room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Basel Adra, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary film "No Other Land":
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"He was attacked by settlers, soldiers together, and they abducted him and nobody saw him after that. I saw him from a far distance in the darkness, blindfolded and handcuffed with another Palestinian man. They were taking him inside the military jeep. There is revenge, They want to punish us. So to try to scare us from speaking up and speaking louder. And the Oscars brought a lot of attention. And everybody almost in the world, millions of people started to know about Masafer Yatta and the story of Masafer Yatta. And these settlers —and I think the state even of Israel, the military— it does not want us to transfer the footage and what’s happening on the ground outside.”
5. Various of clippings, maps and photos on a wall showing clashes between what the Palestinians say Israeli settlers’ attacks on their villages
6. Wide of the Israeli settlement Of Susya
STORYLINE:
The wife of an Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was attacked by Jewish settlers before being detained by the Israeli army said Tuesday that he was beaten in front of his home by three men in military fatigues while another filmed it.
Hamdan Ballal and the other directors of “No Other Land,” which looks at the struggles of living under Israeli occupation, had mounted the stage at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month when it won the award for best documentary film.
On Tuesday, he and two other Palestinians were being held at a police station in the occupied West Bank, according to their attorney, Lea Tsemel, who was only allowed to speak to them by phone several hours after they were detained late the night before.
She said all three had been wounded in the attack and were accused of throwing stones at a young settler, allegations they deny.
Palestinian residents say around two dozen settlers — some masked, some carrying guns and some in military uniforms — attacked the West Bank village of Susiya on Monday evening as residents were breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Soldiers who arrived pointed their guns at the Palestinians, while settlers continued throwing stones, they said.
The Israeli military said Monday it had detained three Palestinians suspected of hurling rocks at forces and one Israeli civilian involved in a what it described as a violent confrontation.
On Tuesday, it referred further queries to police, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Lamia Ballal, the director’s wife, said she heard her husband being beaten outside their home as she huddled inside with their three children.
She heard him screaming, “I’m dying!" and calling for an ambulance.
When she looked out the window, she saw three men in uniform beating Ballal with the butts of their rifles and another person in civilian clothes who appeared to be filming the violence.
Most of the international community considers the settlements illegal.
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