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Monday, June 2, 2025
IDF troops bar journalists from visiting West Bank villages on tour organized by ‘No Other Land’ directors
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsraeli soldiers bar journalists from entering villages in the West Bank on a planned tour organized by the directors of the Oscar-winning movie “No Other Land.”
The directors of the film, which focuses on Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, say they had invited the journalists on the tour today to interview residents about increasing settler violence in the area.
In a video posted on X by the film’s co-director, Yuval Abraham, an Israeli soldier tells a group of international journalists there is “no passage” in the area because of a military order. Basel Adra, a Palestinian co-director of the film who lives in the area, says the military then blocked the journalists from entering two Palestinian villages they had hoped to visit.
Israel’s military does not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After the army destroyed a village and allowed settlers to invade it, they are now blocking our tour with dozens of international journalists saying they’re not allowed to enter Masafer Yatta and visit @basel_adra home. pic.twitter.com/1wEek6BeA6
— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) June 2, 2025
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