Judner Hamdan Balala retells attack on the Oscar Winner’s House

Three weeks ago, the Palestinian film shooter Hamdan Balal stood in front of world cameras in Hollywood, taking away Oscar for the best documentary.

The cameras watched him again on Tuesday, his hand to his bruising, when he was stuck in the blood after 24 hours in Israeli’s detention, it turned to the side.

On the eve, he told reporters who gathered on the street: “Settlers and soldiers (were) attack my house.” They began to “beat me up and threaten weapons,” he added in quotes reports by AP. The soldiers, he said, fired three times in the air.

In the detention – where he said he tied his eyes and kept under the cold air conditioning – the soldiers joked that he was the winner of the Oscar.

Earlier, outside the Hilltop peasant house, he shares with his wife and children, a gray family car sits on a flattened, cut tires, and his windows are broken and detached from the janitors.

This is a sign of the severity of Monday’s violence, here, on the outskirts of Susa on the southern occupied west shore.

Co -director Hamdan Basel is behind the house on his phone, nervously trying to get the news about the detention of his friend. He tells me how he heard about the problems starting at night and came to the rescue.

“I saw about 15 settlers who punched one of the houses and broke the car, stabbed the tanks with water and throwing stones on the moving.

“It was dangerous. I feared in my life. I started telling people. We started working in different directions.”

He says Hamdan was locked inside and tried to defend his family, but realized that he was bleeding and needed by ambulance. Then he was arrested.

Hamdan-known journalist and activist. Colleagues say he was sent to migrants in the past.

Israeli defense forces say Monday began on Monday when “terrorists threw rocks from Israeli citizens by damaging their vehicles.”

“This was followed by a violent confrontation, which was involved in the mutual rock cross between Palestinians and Israelis.”

Josh Kimelman also came to the rescue. He is three months-28-year-old American who lives on the West Bank with the center of the Non-Assembly. It disputes the IDF version of how violence has begun.

“I know that there were Palestinian shepherds, which were subjected to migrants, and then they started to attack the houses.”

Josh, from New Jersey, describes how his car and his colleagues attacked when they arrived.

“Our three friends got out of the car and were immediately migrated,” he says.

“There was one who started it, and then the crowd, perhaps 15 to 20 disguised settlers. They punched one of my friends in the face and neck, and hit the stick and shoved it. And they started throwing stones on our car.”

Josh believes that violence began intentionally.

“Probably this attack has been planned. It is definitely coordinated. You don’t get a mafia from 20 settlers who attack the way they did without planning, and so they meant specific people.”

Basel’s address says that in recent months, violence by displaced people has increased.

“Since the beginning of the year, there have been 45 attacks – only in this small village, not the whole Masafa.

“It’s like hundreds of attacks, every day that happens in society, leaving us while living in fright and affecting.

“We are innocent, the people who live in our homes, surrounded by these terrorist settlers with weapons, with machines, army and police that do not support us.”

Basel just heard the news that Hamdan would be released after paying the pledge, but he was heading to the hospital for further treatment before returning home.

Basel shows me the statues of the “Oscar”, which they were presented earlier this month in the world in Los Endeles. He hoped that such global recognition could help improve life for people.

“It’s disappointing,” he says. “The film has reached the biggest stage of the world. The name of Musaf Yatt became famous, but it does not help us here on earth.”