'No Other Land' Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Freed After Being Attacked & Detained in West Bank

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Hamdan Ballal is now free again. The Palestinian No Other Land co-director was freed after being attacked by settlers and detained by the Israeli military in West Bank, according to co-director Yuval Abraham. “After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family,” the director announced on X on Tuesday (March 25). Keep reading to find out more… Witnesses at the scene of the incident said that dozens of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta area, destroying property. Hamdam was left with his head bleeding, and while he was treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, according to an activist group. “After the assault, Hamdan was handcuffed and blindfolded all night in an army base while two soldiers beat him up on the floor, his lawyer Leah Tsemel said after speaking with him just now,” Yuval shared earlier, adding: “He’s still held in the Kiryat Arba police station.” No Other Land hails from Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, and chronicles the displacement of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta by Israeli military and settlers after a court ruling declared the area a “closed military zone.” Find out more about the original incident.