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Hamdan Ballal Reflects on His Arrest: ‘Don’t Turn Away Now’
“Even though our movie received global recognition, I felt I had failed — we had failed — in our attempt to make life better here.”
One month ago, on March 25, No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal was “brutally attacked” in his home, then arrested and held overnight by the Israeli army after a conflict between Palestinians and settlers in the Masafer Yatta region of the West Bank escalated. In response, a number of Academy members (including but not limited to Mark Ruffalo, Todd Haynes, and Penélope Cruz) signed an open letter criticizing the lack of support. “When we are unable to shepherd and farm because of constantly encroaching settlements and ever more aggressive settlers and soldiers, we lose our income, our source of food, our traditions and our way of life.
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