Hamdan Ballal, the co-director of the acadamy award winning film, 'No Other Land,' has been attacked and lynched in occupied West Bank, according to media reports.

Ballel is alive, according to reports on X, but whereabouts are not known.

Israeli soldiers took him from an ambulance that he called after the attack.

JERUSALEM — Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film No Other Land on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to two of his fellow directors and other witnesses. The filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was one of three Palestinians detained in the village of Susiya, according to attorney Lea Tsemel. Police told her they’re being held at a military base for medical treatment and she said she hasn’t been able to speak with them. Basel Adra,...

(CNN) — The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewitnesses said. Ballal’s co-director Basel Adra told CNN that he had gone to Ballal’s home in the West Bank village of Susya on Monday after Ballal called him in distress. He arrived to see Ballal being taken away by the military while two other people were being put inside police cars. Outside Ballal’s home was a group...

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was beaten by settlers in the West Bank and detained by Israeli soldiers, according to a group of activists from the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. The alleged incident occurred during a settler attack on Susiya, a Palestinian village in Masafer Yatta, where No Other Land was filmed. The documentary, made by a group of Israelis and Palestinians, documents the destruction of Masafer Yatta by the Israeli government. According to a representative for CJNV, which works with...

One of the co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has been beaten and detained, according to his fellow filmmaker. Israeli director Yuval Abraham claimed on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday that a group of settlers had beaten Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, who was later detained by members of the Israeli military. “He has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him,” Abraham wrote. The Associated Press has additionally cited members of the activist group Center for Jewish Nonviolence, which said...

Palestinian sources report that dozens of settlers arrived this evening near the village of Susya in the southern West Bank and threw stones at residents, cars and houses. According to the police, Palestinians responded by throwing stones back. Footage from the scene shows a masked individual throwing stones and attacking Palestinians and hitting the car of activists who had come to assist the residents. According to a Palestinian at the scene, another Palestinian vehicle was also damaged by stones. Four Palestinians were injured by stones, most of them lightly, according...