The Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, one of an Oscar’s winning directors for the documentary on the occupation of the West Bank ‘No Other Land’, has been released by Israeli forces after his arrest tonight in Susiya, the city of the West Bank in which he resides. “After being handcuffed all night and being beaten in a military base, Hamdam Ballal is free and is about to return home with his family,” said the co-director of ‘No Other Land’, the Israeli Yuval Abraham.
Ballal has been beaten and arrested on Monday by Israeli settlers when he was being treated for wounds within an ambulance. The co-director of ‘No Other Land’, the Israeli Yuval Abraham, had reported that Ballal was in an unknown whereabouts after his arrest.
“He was hit and presents wounds in the head and stomach, bleeding,” Abraham said in a statement published in networks. “The soldiers broke into the ambulance they had called and took it. There is no trace of him since then.”
The Israeli army has denied the arrest of Palestinians “within an ambulance” and explained that their arrests have occurred by self -defense after suffering a “launch of stones” by “several terrorists.”
The Gaza Ministry of Health has reported that the number of deaths since the beginning of the Israel military offensive in 2023 already exceeds the 50,000 deaths mark. Journalists and reporters who report from the conflict zone, such as the 23 -year -old reporter Hossam Shabat, murdered while covering the events for Al Jazeera, are still added to the number of deaths.
The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Dorothy Shea, said Monday that Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group, is “solely responsible” for the war in Gaza and the violation of the conditions of high to fire. “Every death would have been avoided if Hamas had accepted the negotiation proposal that the United States offered last Wednesday,” he said.
