
Oscar-winning ’No Other Land’ co-director Hamdan Ballal attacked and arrested by Israeli army

Hamdan Ballal, one of the four co-directors from the Palestinian-Israel collective behind Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has reportedly been attacked in his village on the West Bank.
The incident was reported by co-director and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham on X, who wrote: “A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film No Other Land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called and took him. No sign of him since.”
Abraham then posted that a “lynch mob” attacked Ballal’s village and continued to attack American activists,...
The incident was reported by co-director and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham on X, who wrote: “A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film No Other Land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called and took him. No sign of him since.”
Abraham then posted that a “lynch mob” attacked Ballal’s village and continued to attack American activists,...
- 3/24/2025
- ScreenDaily
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