'No Other Land' Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Attacked by Settlers & Detained by Israeli Military

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Hamdan Ballal has reportedly been beaten and detained. The Palestinian No Other Land co-director was beaten and detained by the Israeli military, Jewish activists reported on Monday (March 24) via AP.

Dozens of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta area, destroying property, according to the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. Keep reading to find out more… The co-director of the joint Palestinian-Israeli movie was left with his head bleeding, and while he was treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, according to the activist group.

The Israeli military has said it was looking into the incident. “We don’t know where Hamdan is because he was taken away in a blindfold,” Josh Kimelman, one of the activists told AP.

A group of 10 to 20 masked settlers attacked him and other Jewish activists with stones and sticks, and smashed their car windows and slashed their tires.