The Israeli army has confirmed arrest three Palestinians in the Masafar Yatta area, without appointing Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian co -director of the Oscar’s winning documentary There is no other land, Al Jazeera reported.
In a publication on X, he said that he sent soldiers to Susya’s village to calm the tensions after “terrorists” threw stones at Israeli settlers. But the “terrorists” began throwing stones at the soldiers and the police, which resulted in the arrest of three Palestinians and an Israeli, he said.
However, he denied the reports that a “Palestinian was arrested while in an ambulance.”
Previously, Israeli journalist and There is no other land The co -director Yuval Abraham had said that a group of “masked colonists of armed kkk” had “lynching” Ballal and had wounds in the stomach and head. But the “Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance that called and took it”, AFP He had reported.
In a publication about X, Abraham said a “group of settlers” had presented Ballal. “They hit him and he has head and stomach wounds, bleeding. The soldiers invaded the ambulance he called and took it. There is no sign of him since then,” Abraham wrote.
He clarified in a subsequent publication that “Hamdan was attacked and beaten, not killed. My use of ‘lynching’ was a bad translation of Hebrew (English is not my first language). He is injured and is arrested at a police station in a settlement. They did not let their lawyer speak to him yet, so we don’t know more.”
The incident took place in the southern village of the West Bank of Susiya, according to the NGO Center Anti-Occupation of Jewish Non-Violence, whose members said they filmed first-hand events. Abraham also shared images of the attack of the Israeli settlers in an X position that showed the attackers to throw rocks into a vehicle.
The video provided by the Jewish non -violence center showed that a masked settler pushed and balanced the fists to two group activists in a dusty field at night, Al Jazeera reported separately.
The activists return to their car. “Enter, enter!” One shouts, and they crouch how you can hear the rays of the rocks hitting the car.
“The automobile window was broken,” says the driver as they move away.
A group of 10 to 20 masked settlers also attacked Jewish activists on the scene with stones and sticks, broke the windows of their car and cut their tires.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. There is no other landwhich was led by Israeli-Palestinian activists, won the best documentary in the academy awards of this year.
Filmed in the near Masafer Yatta, the documentary follows a young Palestinian who fights with forced displacement while the Israeli army knocks down the houses of his community to make space for a shooting area.
The Israeli army declared Masafer Yatta a restricted military zone in the 1980s. Bank, excluding the Jerusalem of eastern Israel, is the home of around three million Palestinians, as well as almost half a million Israeli living in illegal settlements according to international law.
