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Sunday, September 14, 2025
West Bank home of Basel Adra, activist and Oscar-winning director, raided by IDF
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Israeli soldiers raided the home of Palestinian activist and Oscar-winning director Basel Adra in the southern West Bank this evening, after two Israelis were injured by stone throwing in the area, according to the military.
Adra told The Associated Press that before the army raid, Israeli settlers had attacked his village of at-Tuwani, injuring two of his brothers and one cousin.
He accompanied them to a hospital, and while there, Adra said that he heard from family in the village that nine Israeli soldiers had entered his home, were searching for him, and were going through his wife’s phone.
The military says that it had received reports that “a number of terrorists hurled stones at Israeli civilians near at-Tuwani.” As a result of the stone throwing, two Israelis were injured, the IDF says in response to an inquiry.
Following the reports, the IDF says it dispatched troops to the scene, “and they are currently scanning the area and questioning suspects.”
Among those questioned was Adra, a military source confirms to The Times of Israel.
Adra won an Academy Award earlier this year for his work as a co-director of “No Other Land,” a documentary that chronicles Israeli demolitions in Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian West Bank village in a designated IDF live-fire training zone.
The Times of Israel Community.