'No Other Land' co-director Hamdan Ballal, bloodied and bruised, released from Israeli custody

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Associated Press journalists on Tuesday saw Hamdan Ballal and the two other Palestinians leaving the police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba where they were being held.
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Earlier this month, Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian filmmaker, won an Oscar for best documentary feature for “No Other Land,” an exploration of repression in the West Bank.
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In a testimony to his attorney, Hamdan Ballal recounted documenting a settler riot, during which a settler assaulted him while IDF soldiers stood by.
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Minutes later, the settlers walked straight over to the house of Hamdan Ballal, one of the four directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land that documented the destruction of villages in the West Bank – a film condemned in Israel and described by the country’s culture minister as “a sad moment for the world of cinema”.
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"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." / X
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