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‘No Other Land’ Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Freed, Says Co-Director

Following a brutal beating and arrest, 'No Other Land' filmmaker Hamdan Ballal has been freed from Israel detainment, his co-directer said.

The Center for Jewish Nonviolence (CJNV), an activist group with members who were on the scene, told Rolling Stone in a statement that “dozens of settlers” attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta area of the southern West Bank, which occurred on Monday around 6 p.m. local time. The masked assailants — who were reportedly carrying weapons that included knives, batons, and at least one assault rifle — allegedly attacked “two homes, destroyed water tanks, and stole security cameras.” “Reports that Mr. Ballal was forcibly removed by the Israeli army from an ambulance following a brutal attack by settlers, and subsequently detained without clear information regarding his whereabouts, deeply alarm us,” reads the petition, which was signed by Alex Gibney, Liz Garbus, Roger Ross Williams, and others.

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