Film makers behind “No Land” says that the Academy of Film Arts and Sciences failed this week to escalate and support co -director Hamdan Bali when “needs it more.”
Israeli journalist Yoval Abraham and Palestinian activist Basel Adra, who participated in his directive and appeared in the documentary, criticized the Film Academy on Wednesday because of her silence on the recent attack against Bali and his detention by the Israeli army and the police in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces were detained on Monday after being attacked by settlers. He was released on Tuesday. Just weeks ago, before him, Abraham, Adra, and Israeli director Rachel falsely, the documentary award for “No Land” at the Oscars 97.
Ibrahim Tweet Early on Wednesday morning, she wrote that the academy “publicly rejected Hamdan Bali while he was beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and settlers.” He said that many members of the Academy, which supervises the Oscars, prompted a statement to support Bali, “but it was eventually rejected.” Earlier this week, European Cinema Academy and The international documentary ASSN. Among the movie groups that raised awareness of Ballal’s detention and calling for his release.
Abraham said: “We were told that since the other Palestinians were beaten in the settlers’ attack, this may be considered unrelated to the film, so they did not feel any need to respond.”
Ibrahim wrote that the coach of him heard the Israeli soldiers “joking about Oscar while torturing” and that the baller “was also targeted for being Palestinians.” Adra, who was replaced by Abraham, doubled his collaborator on Wednesday. he Tweet: “They refused to support Hamdan just because he is a Palestinian. Another sign that our lives do not concern.”
Abraham said: “This gave the academy an excuse to stay silent when one of the directors honored them, and they lived during the era of the Israeli occupation, to more than others,” before adding, “It was not too late to change this situation.”
He ended a tweet: “Until now, the issuance of a statement condemning the attack on Hamdan and the Masifer Yata community will send a useful message and work as a deterrent for the future.”
The academy representative did not immediately respond to the Times request for comment.
The Israeli army and the police were detained on Monday evening after a group of settlers landed on the Palestinian village of Saoy in the Masifer Yata area, where its residents broke their fast for two days to Ramadan, according to the Associated Press. Balla’s wife told Lalla AFPal that she heard her husband being beaten outside his house and heard him screaming, “I am dying.” She said that she had seen three men wearing military uniforms using their rifles and that the interest surrounding “no other lands” led the Oscars “that led the settlers to” attack us more. “
Ibrahim and the center of the activist Jewish accreditation group announced the detention of Bali on Monday. Tweet Ibrahim Monday that “the soldiers invaded the ambulance [Ballal] He called and took it. ”Adra also Tweet On Ballal’s detention on Monday, a picture of a person with their hands shared their backs into a vehicle bearing the Israeli flag. Adra said at the time: “Hamdan is still … missing after the kidnapping of the soldiers, and they were wounded and bleed,” Adra said at the time.
On Monday, the Jewish Football Center published time shots, on dashcam shots Blouse From the confrontation. The video showed a person shaving three people and one of the group members, and another person – his face is covered with a mask – joined by many others, picks up an object from the ground and dumping it on the car, and destroying the windshield. Anna Liebman, a representative of the active group, joint video Show an alternative angle for confrontation and tweeting pictures A. vehicle With glass fragments in passenger seats. She told the Times on Monday that the Israeli soldiers took Bali from the ambulance where he was receiving care, and two other Palestinian men were detained.
Hours after the news spread about Ballal’s detention on Monday, an Israeli defense spokesman said in a statement that “the violent confrontation” erupted after many people described them as “terrorists” claiming rocks on Israeli citizens and damaging their cars. The statement said that the incident participated in “the rocks of mutual rocks between the Palestinians and the Israelis at the scene of the accident.” According to the statement, the Israeli Defense Army and Israel police responded to “dispersing the confrontation” and began the people who were described as “terrorists” to throw rocks on their way. The Israeli forces detained four people, including an Israeli person who was claiming to be involved in the incident, and took them in reservation for more interrogation.
The Israeli Defense Army spokesman denied the allegations that he had detained a person from inside an ambulance. Israeli forces were detained on suspicion of throwing rocks in the Israeli Defense Army and the police.
Ballal was released on Tuesday from an Israeli police station with bruises on his face and blood on his clothes. I told AP that he was blindfolded, forced to sleep under the “frozen” air conditioner and “heard the voices of the soldiers laugh at me.”
In a statement to the Times newspaper on Wednesday morning, the Israeli Defense Army spokesman denied allegations that the detainees were beaten in a military detention facility and said that the forces “facilitated medical treatment” for the people he had seized. The statement said that the detainees had been handcuffed “according to the operating protocol,” but he did not address Ballal’s claims about detention. The Israeli forces questioned three detainees, “on suspicion of throwing rocks, damaging property, and endangering regional security,” according to the statement. They were released from the Israeli reservation “in light of the circumstances that include a ban on contact with other individuals involved in the incident and personal guarantee.”
The spokesman added that an Israeli civilian claimed to be injured in the face of Monday and requires medical attention.
The statement said: “The investigation is continuing, and more arrests are expected.”
After the launch of Ballal, Ibrahim Tweet Tuesday that his coach is “now free and is about to return home for his family.” Adra also share photo From the co -manager who receives medical care. Bali pictures show a medical examination table with two medical staff around him, one of them wraps the blood pressure screen around the left arm of the director. There are dark spots that resemble blood on the cover and in front of his planned shirt.
Bali, in an interview with Guardian “It was a revenge for our movie,” he said on Wednesday.
“There is no other land” that embodies Israel’s demolition of the Palestinian villages in Masifer Yata and the displacement of its societies in favor of Israeli military training lands.