‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal About to Be Free and Return to Family After Being Attacked and Arrested in West Bank, Yuval Abraham Says

Updated March 25 9:12am Et “No Other Land” co-director Yuval Abraham has said that Hamdan Ballal is “free and is about to go home to his family” after he “was handcuffed and blindfolded all night in an army base while two soldiers beat him up on the floor.”
Updated March 24 7:00 Pm Et Hamdan Ballal, one of the Oscar-winning co-directors of the Israeli-Palestinian documentary “No Other Land,” was attacked by settlers while in the West Bank and then taken by soldiers, according to Ballal’s other co-director Yuval Abraham. The Guardian corroborated it with a report Monday that Ballal was arrested by the Israeli military after being attacked by a group of 15 masked settlers who attacked his house in Susya in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron.
Abraham on Monday, March 24 first posted on X that Ballal was “lynched” by a group of settlers, presumably referring to Israeli settlers...
Updated March 24 7:00 Pm Et Hamdan Ballal, one of the Oscar-winning co-directors of the Israeli-Palestinian documentary “No Other Land,” was attacked by settlers while in the West Bank and then taken by soldiers, according to Ballal’s other co-director Yuval Abraham. The Guardian corroborated it with a report Monday that Ballal was arrested by the Israeli military after being attacked by a group of 15 masked settlers who attacked his house in Susya in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron.
Abraham on Monday, March 24 first posted on X that Ballal was “lynched” by a group of settlers, presumably referring to Israeli settlers...
- 3/25/2025
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
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