#gaza #palestine #civilians #siblings #parents #children #loss #suffering #pain #horror #cruelty #violence #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #idf #atrocities #bibi #netanyahu
Brutal childhood in a warzone - this little #Palestinian girl Mayar Al Najjar (3), who was born with a visual impairment, luckily survived an #Israeli attack on her home in Khan Younis this week but carries away some severe injuries.
Israel releases Oscar-winning #Palestinian director after he was attacked by West Bank settlers
By JULIA FRANKEL
Updated 11:55 AM EDT, March 25, 2025
HEBRON, #WestBank (AP) — "#Israeli authorities released an Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was detained by the army after being attacked by #JewishSettlers in the occupied West Bank. He said they beat him in front of his home while they filmed the assault.
"#HamdanBallal and the other directors of '#NoOtherLand,' which looks at the struggles of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, had mounted the stage at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month when it won the award for best documentary film.
"On Tuesday, with bruises on his face and blood on his clothes, he was released from an Israeli police station in the West Bank settlement of #KiryatArba. He and two other Palestinians who had been attacked and detained were taken to a nearby hospital.
"Ballal said he was held at an army base, blindfolded for 24 hours and forced to sleep under a freezing air conditioner.
"'All my body is pain,' he told The Associated Press. “I heard the voices of the soldiers, they were laughing about me … I heard ‘Oscar’ but I didn’t speak Hebrew.'
"Lea Tsemel, the attorney representing the three men, said they received only minimal care for their injuries from the attack and that she had no access to them for several hours after their arrest."
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-violence-settlers-oscar-hamdan-ballal-beb96478a55f42a7058a60ac5be7bd05
#IDFTerrorism #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #IsraeliSettlers
Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “ No Other Land ” on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to two of his fellow directors and other witnesses.
The filmmaker #HamdanBallal was one of three Palestinians detained in the village of Susiya, according to attorney Lea Tsemel. Police told her they’re being held at a military base for medical treatment and she said she hasn’t been able to speak with them.
https://apnews.com/article/no-other-land-oscar-israel-palestinians-084c63f33e748a3279646759e9b705c2 @palestine @israel
#OscarWinning #Palestinian Film Co-Director Attacked by #IsraeliSettlers, Detained
March 25, 2025
"#HamdanBallal, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary #NoOtherLand, was attacked by illegal #Israeli Jewish settlers in the occupied #WestBank, Al-Jazeera Arabic website, and other sources reported on Monday.
"His fellow co-director, #YuvalAbraham, shared the details of the assault on social media, stating, 'A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film No Other Land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding.'
"Ballal was severely beaten by the settlers and called for an ambulance. However, the situation took a dire turn when Israeli soldiers intervened and forcibly took him away.
"Abraham further explained, 'Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.' As of now, there has been no information on Ballal’s whereabouts, leaving his colleagues and supporters increasingly concerned for his safety.
"No Other Land is a collaboration between Palestinian and #Israeli filmmakers that documents the destruction of #MasaferYatta, a village in the West Bank, by Israeli military forces.
"The documentary has won international acclaim, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. However, the film has also faced backlash and controversy, especially in Israel.
"A video released by the #CenterForJewishNonviolence shows masked settlers attacking Jewish activists with stones and sticks. The activists, including those filming the incident, were targeted and their car windows were smashed.
"One of the activists, Josh Kimelman, spoke to the Associated Press, stating, 'We don’t know where Hamdan is because he was taken away in a blindfold.' The Israeli military has claimed that it is investigating the incident but has not provided any additional information on the matter."
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/oscar-winning-palestinian-film-co-director-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-detained/
#IDFTerrorism #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreePalestine #FreeGaza
This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final #message:
“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the #Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern #Gaza minute by minute..."
— For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1903680761703612900
“#Rape was mainly done by #Israeli female officers inserting objects into the genitals of detainees. We have also documented a case of gang #rape by two different soldiers, twice, on a woman in a detention center. She said she was filmed during the assault.”
One family. One attack. 132 names. A Gaza investigation.
Investigating one of the deadliest moments of the war in Gaza.
from #NPR #NationalPublicRadio [US]
Daniel Estrin, Daniel Wood, Abu Bakr Bashir, Anas Baba, Ahmad Abuhamda, Mahmoud Rehan, Connie Hanzhang Jin
March 24, 2025
An #Israeli strike on a #Gaza apartment building killed 132 members of one family in October 2024. It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the #Israel-#Hamas war. The few survivors documented the dead.
https://apps.npr.org/gaza-building-israel-strike-casualties/
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#media #news #press @palestine @israel
[10:17] MSF condemns forcible displacement by Israel in West Bank
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced the "extremely precarious" situation of Palestinians who have been forcibly displaced by the ongoing Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank.
https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2025/0324/1503682-msf-west-bank/
#MSF #Palestinians #Israeli #WestBank
Breaking the Silence (on FB):
The following statement was published in #Haaretz’s #Hebrew print edition on Friday, in collaboration with many of our partners in #Israeli civil society.
“Say no to the Israeli government’s policy of death
Tens of thousands of deaths, entire cities razed, millions of human beings emaciated from hunger, hostages abandoned to suffer and die - none of this satisfies the bloodlust of the #Netanyahu-Ben Gvir government.
For the sake of its political survival, and in the name of the war of attrition it declared against the Palestinian people, the Israeli government is prepared to continue committing the gravest crimes.
This is what dictatorship looks like - when a leader is prepared to trade in human blood for his own selfish interests.
It’s time to say loud and clear: We will not continue to follow him on this path of doom.
We all have a duty to resist the Netanyahu-Ben Gvir government’s policy of death.
#Palestine #Gaza #BenGvir #Fascism #Genocide #WaeCrime #Politics #BreakingTheSilence @palestine @israel
'Israel recently committed the largest child massacre in its history', can be read in the #Israeli newspaper Haaretz:
Both female and male #Israeli soldiers raped #Palestinian women from #Gaza and the #WestBank, according to testimonies presented during the UN Commission of Inquiry's public hearing on March 11, 2025.
Kifaya Khraim, International Advocacy Officer at the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, and Witness 3, a Palestinian woman human rights defender, provided detailed accounts of sexual, reproductive, and other forms of gender-based violence committed by Israeli security forces and settlers.
#Israeli forces advanced deeper into #Gaza Strip on Friday & blew up only specialised #cancer #hospital in the territory
Hospital was located in #Netzarim Corridor, which splits Gaza in 2 and was controlled by Israeli troops for most of the 17-month-long war
Israel moved to retake the corridor this week shortly after breaking the ceasefire with #Hamas
#gaza #palestine #civilians #siblings #parents #children #loss #suffering #pain #trauma #deaths #killings #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #idf #bibi #netanyahu #childmurder
#MurderedbyIsrael
The #genocide has not stopped, it continues - this little #Palestinian girl, Naya Kareem Abu Daffwas (5), was killed yesterday during #Israeli drone strikes. (Photo by Ihab Hassan)
Saving the child within the child
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/israel-strikes-gaza-child-death-toll
Animation
@cindyweinstein The #Palestinian people are a Semitic people. If you are an anti-Semite, you are against Palestinians but also against #Israeli. That is why it is nonsense to use the word anti-Semitic.
Students at #Glasgow #University announced a hunger #strike to #protest the university's #repression and the ongoing #Israeli genocide in #Gaza.
[17:50] 436 dead in renewed Israel strikes - Gaza civil defence
Live updates on developments from the Middle East as the Israeli army begins a new 'targeted' ground operation in Gaza.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0319/1502945-middle-east-live/
#theMiddleEast #Israeli #Gaza
Wendy 
