On Monday evening, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked four Palestinians, including the co-director of an Oscar-winning documentary, in the village of Susiya, located in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Among the injured was filmmaker Hamdan Bilal Al-Hreini, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.”
During the assault, Israeli occupation forces detained Al-Hreini directly from an ambulance, along with two other young men.
Eyewitnesses reported that dozens of colonizers stormed the village, vandalized property, and targeted Al-Hreini, striking his head and body, which caused significant injuries.
While he was receiving medical attention in an ambulance, Israeli forces invaded the village and abducted him, along with Khaled Shanran and Nasser Shreiteh.
Al-Hreini, in collaboration with activist Basel Adra, directed “No Other Land,” a Palestinian documentary that won Best Documentary Feature at the 97th Academy Awards earlier this month.
The documentary highlights the persistent suffering faced by Palestinians in Masafer Yatta due to recurring assaults by Israeli forces.
Earlier in the day, Jihad Al-Nawaj’a, head of Susiya’s local council, stated that four Palestinians, including Al-Hreini, sustained moderate injuries while confronting armed paramilitary colonizers from the illegal colony of “Susiya.”
These colonizers attempted to steal a flock of sheep, fired live rounds into the air, and damaged water tanks, property, and vehicles in the village.
In a related incident, anti-colonization activist Osama Makhamra stated that colonizers also targeted the home of Saddam Abu Qbeita in the Eshkara area, southeast of Yatta.
They hurled stones at his house and physically assaulted him, leaving him with bruises that were treated on-site.
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Israel’s colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories, including in and around the occupied capital, Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions.
UN Security Council and UN General Assembly resolutions have condemned Israeli policies in all its forms, in the occupied Palestinian territories, whether it be the seizure of Palestinian land for various military purposes, the construction of illegal Israeli colonies, or the creation of bypass roads.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states that the occupying power [Israel] is forbidden from transferring any part of its civilian population onto the land on which it occupies [Palestine]. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
