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'No Other Land' Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Freed, Says Co-Director
Following a brutal beating and arrest, 'No Other Land' filmmaker Hamdan Ballal has been freed from Israel detainment, his co-directer said.
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Following his attack by Israeli settlers and subsequent arrest by Israeli authorities, Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal â the co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land â has been freed.
âAfter being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family,â Ballalâs co-director Yuval Abraham wrote on X. It was Abrahamâs posts that helped circulate the news of Ballalâs attack, which occurred just outside his West Bank village home.
Abraham first reported on Monday, March 24 that Ballal was âlynched,â but then issued a correction: âNote: Hamdan was assaulted and beaten up, not murdered,â he said. âMy use of âlynchedâ was a mistranslation from Hebrew (English isnât my first language). Heâs injured and being held at a police station in a settlement. They did not let his lawyer speak to him yet so we donât know more.â
The Center for Jewish Nonviolence (CJNV), an activist group with members who were on the scene, told Rolling Stone in a statement that âdozens of settlersâ attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta area of the southern West Bank, which occurred on Monday around 6 p.m. local time. The masked assailants â who were reportedly carrying weapons that included knives, batons, and at least one assault rifle â allegedly attacked âtwo homes, destroyed water tanks, and stole security cameras.âÂ
Ballalâs attack and arrest made international news, and resulted in several filmmakers signing a petition calling for his release. As of this writing, it has nearly 7,000 signatures.
âReports that Mr. Ballal was forcibly removed by the Israeli army from an ambulance following a brutal attack by settlers, and subsequently detained without clear information regarding his whereabouts, deeply alarm us,â reads the petition, which was signed by Alex Gibney, Liz Garbus, Roger Ross Williams, and others. âSuch treatment of an internationally acclaimed filmmaker gravely undermines artistic freedom, human rights, and freedom of speech â core values vital to democratic societies.â
Commenting on IndieWireâs Instagram post, actor Mark Ruffalo wrote, âEvery filmmaker and academy member should be acting together in protest. No matter where you stand on this issue this is an attack on our beloved art from of filmmaking. Hamden Ballal is a political prisoner, and this is an international incident and violation of human rights. Many of us are not surprised by this behavior from the lawless settlers and the IDF at this point. Kill journalists and abducting filmmakers is not an accident but a design for the eradication of a people and their culture. Free Ballal!â
Filmed by both Palestinian and Israeli activists, No Other Land was co-directed by Ballal, Abraham, Basel Adra, and Rachel Szor. Prior to winning the Oscar for Best Documentary, Adra and Abraham spoke to Rolling Stone about the situation in the West Bank and whether or not the nomination has helped. âSo far, it has not,â Adra said. âThatâs the sad part. The movie is doing very well outside, in festivals, among audiences, and having a focus from media. But the situation on the ground is going very badly.â
Added Abraham: âWe are going to continue to document, because that is what we do. I donât know how effective it is and I can still hope it will have some effect eventually. But right now, as Basel said, itâs very hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.â
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