Hamdan Bilal, who made the Oscar-winning film “There is No Other Land” with Yuval Avraham, was arrested by the Zionist security forces

Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 25.03.2025

The movie chronicles settler violence and the Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, focusing on the stealing of the lands of Masafer Yatta in a small region in the southern West Bank occupied in 1967.

The film highlights Israeli demolitions of homes in the village, which the Israeli military claims  it wants to turn into a military training zone. Its footage shows the Israeli military razing a school and filling water wells with cement, so residents cannot rebuild.

According to a false statement by the goons in uniforms Spokesperson, he was arrested because he was violent. According to the Zionist army, a confrontation began when a number of Palestinians threw stones at Israeli civilians and damaged their vehicles near the village of Susiya. As a result, a confrontation developed between Palestinians and Israelis, which included, among other things, mutual stone-throwing. When the Zionist army and police forces arrived at the scene, a number of Palestinians, including Oscar winner Bilal, began throwing stones at the forces as well.

The Zionist army that is using lies time and again lies in this case as well. Hours before the Zionist goons in uniforms Spokesperson’s announcement, Bilal’s partner Yuval Abraham published a post on the social network X told the readers that “a group of settlers attacked the home of Hamdan Balal, who directed the Oscar-winning film No Other Country with me. Hit him in the head and all over his body. While he was wounded and bleeding, soldiers got into the ambulance he had called and arrested him. Since then, he has disappeared and it is not clear if he is receiving medical treatment and what is happening to him.” It should be noted that the Zionist army did not mention that neither Bilal nor any other Palestinian was arrested while they were in an ambulance.

The violent Zionist settlers in the West-Bank are the unofficial soldiers in the service of the Zionist state.” Since occupying the West Bank in 1967, Israel has misappropriated more than 2 million dunams of land there for its own purposes, including building and expanding settlements and paving roads for settlers. Some areas have been officially taken over by the state, others through daily acts of settler violence. These two seemingly unrelated tracks are both forms of state violence: the Israeli apartheid regime and its representatives actively aid and abet the settler’s violence as part of a strategy to cement the takeover of Palestinian land.” [i]

Israel like a typical settler colonialist state is no more than a pirate state. Killing and stealing the properties of the Palestinians native people. This piracy is backed by the other imperialists and their local servants in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the new government in Lebanon.

For the Arab revolution!

For Palestine red, and free from the river to the sea!

Endnote:

[i] https://www.btselem.org/topic/settler_violence

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