The Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday that the settlers who assaulted Hamdan Ballal, co -director of the Documentary Oscarized “No Other Land”, and the Israeli soldiers who arrested him on Monday “paid accounts.”
“The CPJ demands that hooded Israeli settlers who attacked the Palestinian film director Hamdan Ballal and Israeli soldiers who arrested him in the West Bank occupied on Monday pay accounts,” said the organization in a statement after the release of the filmmaker on Tuesday.
As reported by the Israeli co -director of the film, Yuval Abraham, in his account of the social network X, the Israeli authorities released Ballal on Tuesday, after spending the night detained after suffering a beating at the hands of settlers in Susiya, the town of southern Bank occupied in which he resides.
The CPJ programs director Carlos Martínez de la Serna said that the attack against Ballal “provides even more evidence of the hostility of the Israeli authorities against the free press”, while demanding that Israel cease “at once” its attacks against journalists and filmmakers and make those responsible pay accounts.
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From the organization they also indicated that they sent an email to the Israeli army asking for the reasons for Ballal detention that did not receive immediate response.
In addition, they recalled that Basal Adra, Palestinian co -director of the film, was also attacked by masked Israeli settlers and that Yuval Abraham and his family received death threats after their speech at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2024.
The attack against Hamdan Ballal occurred on Monday, when a group of settlers hit him, hurting him in the head and stomach, Abraham said, who added that Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance where the paramedics were attending to him and took him detained.
According to his partner, Ballal spent the night for an Israeli military base, where he was beaten, facts that also denounced the Palestinian co -director of the film.
“No Other Land” covers five years of recordings (2019-2023) in the home of the Palestinian journalist Basel Adra, the village of Al Tuwani en Masafer Yatta, in occupied West Bank, in which they show the demolitions of homes, schools, water wells and roads by the Israeli army and that today continue.
With EFE information
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