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Oscar-winning Palestinian arrested yesterday in West Bank is released

By Nurit Yohanan 25 March 2025, 4:44 pm 2 Edit

Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

Hamdan Ballal at the 97th Annual Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Al Seib/The Academy via Getty Images/AFP)
Hamdan Ballal at the 97th Annual Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Al Seib/The Academy via Getty Images/AFP)

Hamdan Ballal, one of the creators of the Oscar-winning film “No Other land,” has been released from detention.

Ballal was arrested yesterday by the IDF and was later interrogated by the police along with two other Palestinians from the village of Susya in the southern West Bank after a violent incident there.

They said that they were attacked with stones and beaten by settlers and soldiers before their arrest. The IDF stated that they were arrested on suspicion of throwing rocks at IDF soldiers. Today, the police informed them that they are suspected of rock-throwing, assaulting an Israeli, and damaging a vehicle.

The three have been released on bail and taken to a Palestinian hospital for treatment.

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