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Israeli Army Stops Press Tour Of Oscar-Winning ‘No Other Land’ Villages
Israeli Army Stops Press Tour Of Oscar-Winning ‘No Other Land' Villages
Israeli soldiers stopped international journalists from entering villages in the West Bank featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, during a press tour on Monday organised by co-directors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham. No Other Land which won the Best Documentary Academy award follows the journey of Adra as he documents the devastation of wreaked on Masafer Yatta and its Bedouin community over the years, and Israeli journalist Abraham’s attempts to amplify this narrative. In March, just weeks after the documentary’s Oscar win, Hamdan Ballal, a co-director on the film alongside Adra, Abraham and Rachel Szor, was attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers close to his his village and then arrested by soldiers and held overnight in an army facility.
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