Oscar-Winning Palestinian Director Says Israeli Soldiers Raided His West Bank Home
Jerusalem (AP) – Palestinian Oscar Award -winning Director Basel Adra Israel said that the troops raided a raid in the West Bank house on Saturday, called him and passed his wife’s phone.
Israeli settlers attacked the village, two brothers and a cousin were injured, Adra Associated Press told. He accompanied them to the hospital. While there, he said he had heard that nine Israeli soldiers in the village had suppressed the house.
The soldiers asked his wife Suha where he was and passed the phone, when his 9 -month -old daughter was at home. They also briefly detained one of his uncles.
On Saturday night, Adra said there was no way to return home to control her family, because the soldiers were blocking the entrance of the village and were afraid to be detained.
Israel’s army did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
ADRA, as a journalist and filmmaker, chronic the severity of the settlement in Masafer Yatta, who reached the Southern Southern Bank, where he was born. The settlers said that he felt that he had been targeted more intensively since he won the Oscar after he attacked the joint director Hamdan Balllal.
He described the activities of Saturday as “terrible ..
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“Even if you just filmed the settlers, the army comes and chases you, calls your home,” he said. “The whole system has been built to attack us, to scare us, to scare us very much.”
Another partner director Yuval Abraham said that he was terrified for Basel ”.
“Today, what happened in the village, we have seen this dynamics over and over again, that Israeli settlers are brutally attacking a Palestinian village, and then comes to the army and attacks the Palestinians.”
“There is no other land” This year, he won an Oscar for the best documentary, depicts the struggle of the residents of the region to prevent the Israeli army from destroying their villages. Balllal and Adra produced a joint Palestinian-Israeli with Israeli directors Abraham and Rachel Szor.
In 2024, the film won a series of international awards starting from the Berlin International Film Festival. When Miami Beach proposed to end the rental of a cinema hall showing a documentary, he also drew fire in Israel and abroad.
In the 1967 Middle East War, Israel caught the West Bank with Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Palestinians want all three for their future situations and see the growth growth as a great obstacle to a two -state solution.
Israel has established more than 100 settlements hosting more than 500,000 settlers with Israeli citizenship. 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank live under the open -ended Israeli military administration and Western -backed Palestinian authority manages the population centers.
The Israeli Army identified Masafer Yatta in the South West Bank as a live fire training zone in the 1980s and ordered the expellers of the Arab Bedouin to be expelled. Approximately 1,000 calmly remained in place, but soldiers regularly move to destroy their homes, tents, water tanks and olive gardens – and the Palestinians are always afraid of being deported.
During the war in Gaza, Israel killed hundreds of Palestinians in the West Bank during large -scale military operations, and an increase in the settler attacks on Palestinians. There was also an increase in Palestinian attacks on the Israelis.
