The Oscar-winning director of a documentary on the Israel-Palestinian conflict was released on Tuesday, a day after being arrested during a raid by Israeli settlers on his village in the West Bank. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/26/world/oscar-palestinian-director-israeli-settlers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #hamdanballal #oscars #westbank #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians

I don't think Israel will ever have an "are we the baddies?" moment.

Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal released from detention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6IxJ-LqSHg

#Gaza #WestBank #Israel

Oscar-winning Palestinian director says Israeli soldiers beat him after attack by settlers https://www.byteseu.com/862979/ #AcademyAwards #assault #Documentaries #Entertainment #GeneralNews #Israel #IsraelGovernment #IsraelHamasWar #LeaTsemel #LosAngeles #MiddleEast #MilitaryAndDefense #movies #PalestinianTerritoriesGovernment #Religion #ShemTovLuski #WestBank #WorldNews

https://www.europesays.com/1942305/ Netherlands expresses concern about rising ‘settler violence’ in West Bank #AnadoluAjansı #CasparVeldkamp #HamdanBallal #Israel #Nederland #netherlands #Nieuws #Palestine #WestBank

#HamdanBallal who won an Oscar with his documentary #NoOtherLand has been brutally beaten and #abducted by #IDF soldiers during a settler attack. Nobody has heard of him since.

#press #news #BreakingNews #WestBank #FreePalestine

https://youtu.be/6bb25LxITek?si=MFAjHLxWTrsjWiwO

Israeli authorities have released “No Other Land” co-director Hamdan Ballal after holding him overnight at an army base.

“All my body is pain,” he told The Associated Press. “I heard the voices of the soldiers, they were laughing about me … I heard ‘Oscar’ but I didn’t speak Hebrew.”

Basel Adra, another of the film’s co-directors, says there’s been a massive upswing in attacks by settlers and Israeli forces since the Oscar win.

(AP) #HamdanBallal #Israel #WestBank

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-violence-settlers-oscar-hamdan-ballal-beb96478a55f42a7058a60ac5be7bd05

I bambini amputati di #Gaza combattono contro il trauma psicologico, oltre a quello fisico, della perdita degli arti in mezzo allo stop degli aiuti umanitari imposto da #Israele.

"Il 2 marzo Israele ha vietato l'ingresso a tutte le forniture mediche, nonché a cibo, carburante e altri aiuti. La ripresa della campagna militare da parte di Israele la scorsa settimana, che ha ucciso centinaia di palestinesi, non ha fatto altro che aumentare le fila degli amputati."

#CeasefireNOW
#GazaGenocide‌ #Gaza #WestBank
#Israel #IsraeliOccupation #ZionistTerrorism #PACE #25marzo

https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-gaza-child-amputees-6ef26159b13cdc3739cabee0c026aa3f

Hamdan #Ballal, Ko-Regisseur des mit dem Oscar prämierten Dokumentarfilms »No Other Land«, wurde von israelischen #Siedlern zusammengeschlagen und anschließend festgenommen. #westbank https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1190048.israel-und-palaestina-der-regisseur-hamdan-ballal-wurde-verschleppt.html

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #westbank / #occupation / #film / #release

„Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal and two others were released by Israeli authorities after being detained in the West Bank. Their arrest followed an assault by Jewish settlers during Ramadan. Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' claims the attack and detention were linked to the film’s international success highlighting Palestinian struggles.“

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-oscar-winning-filmmaker-hamdan-balla-released-by-israel-wife-says-she-heard-him-being-beaten-and-screaming/articleshow/119484508.cms

#acqua #Water

"In #Israele, l'acqua è una risorsa che viene distribuita in modo discriminatorio.
Si tratta di una discriminazione sistematica."

#CeasefireNOW
#GazaGenocide‌ #Gaza #WestBank
#Israel #IsraeliOccupation #ZionistTerrorism #PACE #25marzo

https://www.mekomit.co.il/%d7%94%d7%a4%d7%95%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%98%d7%99%d7%a7%d7%94-%d7%a9%d7%9c-%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%9b%d7%9a-%d7%9e%d7%99%d7%99%d7%91%d7%a9%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%a7%d7%94%d7%99%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%9e%d7%95/

"Hamdan Ballal and two other Palestinians left a police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, where they were being held on Tuesday. Ballal had bruises on his face and blood on his clothes.

The three had spent the night on the floor of a military base while suffering from serious injuries sustained in the attack"

I suspect the international outcry had something to do with it. Otherwise...

#HamdanBallal #Israel #WestBank #IDF #NoOtherLand #Settlers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/oscar-winning-palestinian-director-hamdan-ballal-released-from-israeli-detention

Israel releases Oscar-winning Palestinian director after he was attacked by West Bank settlers.

@AssociatedPress reports: "Lamia Ballal, the director’s wife, said she heard her husband being beaten outside their home as she huddled inside with their three children."

https://flip.it/OzJ7Ri

#Israel #WestBank #HamdanBallal #News #Oscars #documentary

Israel at war day 535: What’s going on in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria? | Israel News https://www.byteseu.com/?p=862307 #Gaza #Hamas #Hezbollah #Houthi #Iran #Iraq #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #Lebanon #LiveUpdates #NorthernIsrael #Syria #WestBank #Yemen

About 40 percent of Palestinian males have been imprisoned by Israel at some point in their lives, a human rights lawyer said.

“It’s the highest rate of incarceration in the world, and it’s because Israel creates this system whereby the means of controlling Palestinians is through their imprisonment.”

Diana Buttu

@palestine
#Gaza
#WestBank
#imprisonment

Israeli Settler Violence Is a Constant Threat Where Oscar-Winning Director Was Attacked https://theintercept.com/2025/03/25/israeli-settler-violence-hamdan-ballal-no-other-land-arrest/ #WestBank #Gaza #IsraeliIllegalOccupation #IllegalOccupation #genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes

LIVE: Israel kills dozens of Palestinians in Gaza as it mulls reoccupation | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/25/live-israeli-attacks-kill-65-in-gaza-including-journalists-children

- Israeli army says Hezbollah commander killed in Lebanon
- Israeli military conducts more raids in occupied West Bank
- Israeli minister: Shin Bet chief believes in establishing Palestinian state
- PRCS says its 9 staff members still missing; Israel blocks search effort

#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Israel
@palestine

Report The Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land, has been bashed by West Bank settlers, then detained & disappeared by Israel. His lawyer doesn't know where he is.

Hamdan Ballal was one of three detained.

Basel Adra, another co-director, witnessed the detention: “We came back from the Oscars and every day since, there is an attack on us."

https://aje.io/k016y8?update=3600244

#NoOtherLand #israelicrimesagainsthumanity #westbank #ethniccleansing #uspol .

PIJ Bombs Gaza Envelope, Settler Killed in Resistance Operation

The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, announced on Monday that it had launched a rocket barrage targeting Sderot, Netiv HaAsara, Zikim, and settlements surrounding Gaza.

Zionist media reported that air raid sirens sounded in Sderot and its surroundings for the second time in a row, signaling incoming rocket fire.

This escalation comes as the Palestinian resistance continues to retaliate against aggression on Gaza and the ongoing massacres against civilians.

Resistance operations see uptick

Al-Qassam Brigades launched on Friday a salvo of rockets toward the occupied city of Askalan.

That marks the second day that the Palestinian Resistance launched rockets toward occupied territories in response to the regime restarting its war on Gaza, with the al-Qassam Brigades announcing Thursday a barrage of “Moqadama M90” rockets targeting Tel Aviv in retaliation for the massacres committed by the occupation against civilians in the Gaza Strip.

Despite the ceasefire agreement and the commitment to its second phase, the occupation has deliberately imposed new conditions and pressure on Palestinian resistance, violating the truce.

The renewed Zionist aggression on Gaza has resulted in hundreds of martyrs and over a thousand wounded, as airstrikes target various areas across the besieged strip.

Zionist occupation forces admitted to tracking three rockets fired from Gaza toward central occupied Palestine, prompting alarm sirens in Tel Aviv, Gush Dan, and nearby settlements.

Zionist regime ‘to act with a force never seen before’

“For Gazans, this is the latest warning … The air force attacks on Hamas were only the first step. What comes next will be much harder, and you will have to pay the price in full. The evacuation of the population from the war zones will soon begin again. If all kidnapped ‘Israelis’ are not released and Hamas is not forced out of the Gaza Strip, ‘Israel’ will act with a force you have never seen before,” Katz said in a direct address to the people of Gaza on March 19.

The statement signals a further escalation in the occupation’s brutal onslaught in the Gaza Strip, which has already killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and displaced the overwhelming majority of the enclave’s residents.

Katz also urged Gazans to follow the advice of former US President Donald Trump, claiming that compliance with Zionist demands could lead to alternative “options” for them, including the forced displacement from Gaza permanently.

“Return the kidnapped and get rid of Hamas, then other options will open up for you, including passage to other parts of the world. The alternative is total destruction and devastation,” he added.

His remarks reinforce growing concerns over the regime’s plans to depopulate Gaza through systematic forced displacement, a policy widely condemned as a violation of international law.

Zionist settler killed in Resistance operation

A settler was killed and several others were injured in a combined ramming, stabbing, and shooting operation in the Yokneam Illit area, east of Haifa, Israeli media reported on Monday.

According to the regime’s Magen David Adom ambulance service, the person who carried out the operation was shot and killed at the scene.

Reports indicate that the person who carried out the operation initially drove his vehicle into a group of settlers waiting at a bus stop at Tishbi Junction before exiting the car and opening fire, injuring multiple Zionists.

Zionist channel Kan said the Palestinian who carried out the attack was from the 1948 occupied territories.

Video footage showed the moment of the operation.

Meanwhile, occupation forces continue their assaults on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amid the genocidal war they are waging in Gaza.

Palestinian Resistance factions exalted the martyr Karam Jabarin and congratulated the qualitative operation.

Popular Resistance Committees:

The Haifa operation exposes the fragility and weakness of the security system within the zionist entity and reveals the falsehood of the slogans repeated by the pillars of the fascist zionist government.

We exalt the martyr fighter Karam Jabarin, the executor of the heroic operation in Haifa, and call upon all our people in the occupied lands of 1948, Al-Quds, and the West Bank to follow his example and strike the zionist enemy—soldiers and settlers alike—wherever they are on our occupied Palestinian land, in retaliation for the innocent blood spilled in Gaza at the hands of the criminal killers in the zionist government, backed by the American administration.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praises the heroic Haifa operation, considering it a legitimate response to the occupation’s massacres and a clear message that our people are united and that resistance continues.

Mujahideen Movement:

This high-quality operation confirms the failure of all attempts to end the resistance and its choice in the West Bank and reflects the deep-rooted nature of resistance in the hearts of our people and its free sons.

This operation delivers a new security slap to the enemy’s security and intelligence apparatus and reaffirms that there is no safety for zionists anywhere their feet desecrate in Palestine.

This operation once again confirms the resistance’s ability to break the enemy’s prestige, cause it pain, and respond to its crimes, aggression, and malicious schemes aimed at eliminating the resistance, isolating our people, and expelling them from their land in Gaza, the West Bank, and Al-Quds.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad:

We bless the heroic operation carried out by one of our people from the occupied interior near the city of Haifa, which resulted in several injuries among the usurping settlers.

This operation and others like it are a natural response to the occupation’s ongoing crimes against our people, the genocide it wages against their existence, and its oppression and criminality against our people across all of Palestine.

Hamas:

This operation, along with previous high-quality operations deep within the usurping zionist entity, reaffirms the resistance’s ability to break the enemy’s prestige, cause it pain, and respond to its crimes, aggression, and malicious plans aimed at eliminating the resistance, isolating our people, and expelling them from their land in Gaza, the West Bank, and Al-Quds, in addition to its continuous criminal practices against our free prisoners.

These heroic operations represent the natural choice and appropriate response to the continued massacres, policies of siege, terror, and oppression, and attempts at displacement, particularly from the West Bank refugee camps, foremost among them Jenin and Tulkarem.

We call for escalating painful heroic operations in the heart of the occupied entity and at all points of its presence in the West Bank, Al-Quds, and the occupied interior. We also call for the unity of our people and their rallying behind the choice of resistance until the occupation is expelled.

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17811

#alAqsaFlood #gaza #hamas #palestine #pflp #pij #resistance #westAsia #westBank

A co-director of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land,” Hamdan Ballal, was attacked by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, according to his co-director and eyewitnesses. Read more from @CNN
https://flip.it/c_8PxY
#NoOtherLand #Oscar #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank

"A mob of Israeli settlers has attacked Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal just three weeks after the documentary he co-directed on the violence of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, No Other Land, won an Oscar.

"According to his co-director Yuval Abraham and witnesses, per Haaretz, Ballal called an ambulance after settlers attacked him but was detained by Israeli soldiers who stopped the ambulance to arrest him. His current condition and location is unknown."

https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-settler-mob-attacks-no-other-land-co-director-hamdan-ballal/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #WestBank

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/israel-polizei-nimmt-faz-korrespondenten-fest-110376768.html #Westjordanland:
#Israelische #Polizei nimmt F.A.Z.-Korrespondenten fest #Pressefreiheit #Siedlungen #Westbank #Journalismus #Israel #Palästina

So while everyone is entertained (in French we say "diverted" which is more apt) by a bunch of clowns in the US, #Israel killed 600 #Palestinians in #Gaza, during what is supposed to be a #ceasefire. Today in the #WestBank, #Oscar winning co-director of #NoOtherLand Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by #settlers then disappeared by the the Israeli army. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/24/middleeast/ballal-oscar-palestinian-beaten-israeli-settlers-intl-latam/index.html

NEW: #UnitedNations Says #Israel's Use of Sexual VIOLENCE on #Palestinians is SYSTEMATIC (w/ #CraigMohkiber)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak--yIBb1Rk

#BriahnaJoyGray #BadFaith #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #FreePalestine #Israel #Apartheid #Genocide

NEW: #UnitedNations Says #Israel's Use of Sexual VIOLENCE on #Palestinians is SYSTEMATIC (w/ #CraigMohkiber)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak--yIBb1Rk

#BriahnaJoyGray #BadFaith #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #FreePalestine #Israel #Apartheid #Genocide

Quelle horreur… La communauté internationale est complice. #IsraelTerroristState #Israel #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLandMovie #WestBank #PalestinianRights

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/24/oscar-winning-palestinian-director-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-and-arrested

🚨 #Israel #TerroristState ❗
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained, activists say

https://apnews.com/article/no-other-land-oscar-israel-palestinians-084c63f33e748a3279646759e9b705c2

#HamdanBallal #IDF #settlers #Westbank

Director of Oscar winning "No Other Land" attacked by settlers in West Bank and arrested by Israeli military. No reason for arrest given. #Palestine #WestBank

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/24/oscar-winning-palestinian-director-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-and-arrested?CMP=share_btn_url

Co-director of No Other Land, Hamdan Ballal, was beaten by settlers then, while being taken away in an ambulance, arrested by Israeli soldiers.

#Israel #Palestine #WestBank #NoOtherLand

Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/24/oscar-winning-palestinian-director-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-and-arrested #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Palestinianterritories #Documentaryfilms #NoOtherLand #Worldnews #WestBank #Culture #Israel #Film

I think I might have reached burnout.

Haaretz: "Palestinian Family Goes Out for Dinner, Returns to Find Israeli Settlers Took Over Their Home"

https://archive.is/LHt88

#WestBank #FreePalestine

Israeli settlers attacked Hamdan Ballal, one of the co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land,” before the Israeli military snatched him from an ambulance as he was being treated for his injuries.

(AP) #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #WestBank #Israel #settlers

https://apnews.com/article/no-other-land-oscar-israel-palestinians-084c63f33e748a3279646759e9b705c2

Israel strikes Gaza hospital, killing Hamas official https://www.byteseu.com/859716/ #Gaza #Hamas #Israel #MiddleEast #Palestine #WestBank

"Il massacro del #Ramadan.
I palestinesi di Gaza City raccontano di aver raccolto parti di corpi dalla strada e di aver allontanato i cani randagi mentre aspettavano le ambulanze in mezzo agli attacchi israeliani."

#CeasefireNOW
#GazaGenocide‌ #Gaza #WestBank
#Israel #IsraeliOccupation #ZionistTerrorism #PACE #24marzo

https://www.972mag.com/ramadan-massacre-gaza-bodies/

"50,000 palestinesi sono stati uccisi a Gaza.
Ecco come è successo, giorno dopo giorno."

Purtroppo dobbiamo ricordare che per la rivista scientifica #TheLancet il numero delle vittime potrebbe aver superato i 180.000... a metà del 2024.

#CeasefireNOW
#GazaGenocide‌ #Gaza #WestBank
#Israel #IsraeliOccupation #ZionistTerrorism #PACE #24marzo

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-24/ty-article-static/.premium/50-000-palestinians-have-been-killed-in-gaza-this-is-how-it-happened-day-by-day/00000195-5706-d544-a795-df9eacaa0002

Israel expands illegal West Bank settlement

@palestine
#WestBank
#Israel
#settlements

LIVE: Israel kills 16 in pre-dawn attacks on Gaza; US bombs Yemen | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/24/live-israel-kills-46-in-gaza-including-two-hamas-officials

- Houthi-backed government accuses US of ‘taking lives of defenceless civilians’ in Yemen
- Photos: Israel expands illegal West Bank settlement
- US alleges Columbia’s Khalil covered up his work for UNRWA
- WATCH: Israel bombs Nasser Hospital, killing Hamas leader
- More Israeli attacks as death toll in Gaza rises to 16

#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Israel #MahmoudKhalil
@palestine

#Israel #TerroristState #Westbank #Illegal #occupation #settlers #settlercolonialism

Israëlische regering keurt afsplitsing 13 nederzettingen goed

https://nos.nl/liveblog/2560004-israelische-leger-valt-ziekenhuis-khan-younis-aan-dodental-in-gaza-stijgt-naar-50-000#UPDATE-container-84963074

LIVE: Israel fire kills fleeing Palestinians after forced Gaza displacement | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/23/live-israel-bombs-lebanon-and-syria-kills-at-least-32-in-gaza

- PA denounces Israeli recognition of new West Bank settlements
- Hamas says Israel’s latest attacks part of ‘policy of genocide’
- Expelled South African ambassador to the US says ‘cannot sacrifice the Palestinians’
- ‘Absolutely terrified about what might happen next’: UNICEF sounds alarm as more children killed, aid runs out

#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Israel
@palestine

Hi all,

tl;dr If you have questions for a (leftist but attempting to be fair-minded) local in Jerusalem about the current situation in Israel or the West Bank, please ask them below.

It's been quite a while since I've done this - and I don't know if there is any desire - but I'll have some free time in a few hours, and I'd be happy to answer any questions outsiders might have about the local vibe around Jerusalem about the current political situation and/or the siege on Gaza and the West Bank. I wanted to do this because I think the international media isn't doing a great job explaining the political situation here. (For example, the big protests going on right now aren't really centrally about the genocide in Gaza, although there are certainly anti-war contingents within the broader movement.)

I am happy to answer or pass along questions about Jerusalem (East or West), Israel, or the West Bank.
I can answer questions about the opinions of Israelis of various political stances on various issues with related to Gaza, but I no longer have any living contacts in Gaza, so for an understanding of what's going on on the ground there, you can (*and should*) look elsewhere for those very important voices.

#palestine #gaza #israel #westbank #jerusalem #activism