Five Israeli men were acquitted of all charges on Monday at a Cyprus court over the alleged gang rape of a 20-year-old British woman. Famagusta criminal court cleared the five defendants of two counts of rape, one count of sexual abuse, one count of forced sexual intercourse, one count of sexual harassment, and one count...
The Gaza hospital director has faced relentless torture in his three months in Israel’s camps, his legal team says. An Israeli court upheld and extended north Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya’s detention in a notorious Israeli torture camp for another six months on Tuesday, based on “secret evidence” submitted by prosecutors. The decision by the...
Fellow co-director Basel Adra said there has been an uptick in Israeli settler violence since the Oscar win. Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land Hamdan Ballal was released bloodied and bruised from Israeli custody on Tuesday after Israeli officers subjected him to beatings and apparent torture. Ballal and two other Palestinians who were...
Sebastian Usher Middle East correspondent Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images Hamdan Ballal poses with Rachel Szor after they won Best Documentary Feature Film for No Other Land at the Oscars A Palestinian Oscar winner has been attacked by Israeli settlers, activists who witnessed the event say, before being detained by the Israeli military. Hamdan...
On 24 March, Israeli far-right Zionist settlers in the occupied West Bank attacked and lynched Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed the Oscar-winning No Other Land. Occupation soldiers then abducted him from the ambulance that had come to treat him for his injuries. Hamdan Ballal: lynched and abducted At the time of writing, there had been “no...
A mob of Israeli settlers has attacked Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal just three weeks after the documentary he co-directed on the violence of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, No Other Land, won an Oscar. According to his co-director Yuval Abraham and witnesses, per Haaretz, Ballal called an ambulance after settlers attacked him but was...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Israel’s recent brutal attack in Gaza resulted in the killing of predominantly women and children. It involved some of the most fatal attacks on Gaza that we have witnessed in 17 months. Given the degree to which the Israeli state formation has made clear...
After a four-day mission to the West Bank and Gaza, a top official for the United Nations’ children’s welfare agency on Sunday described the effects that Israel’s blockade on all humanitarian aid into the latter territory has had on roughly 1 million children in recent weeks, and demanded that lifesaving essentials — currently “stalled just...