Hamdan Ballal, one of the Oscar-winning co-directors of the Israeli-Palestinian documentary “No Other Land,” was attacked by “settlers” while in the West Bank and then taken by soldiers, according to Ballal’s other co-director Yuval Abraham.

Abraham on Monday, March 24 posted that Ballal was attacked by a group of settlers, presumably referring to Israeli settlers living on Palestinian land in the West Bank, and was then arrested by soldiers who “invaded” his ambulance. He added there has been no sign of Ballal since.

“A group of settlers attacked Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film No Other Land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since,” Abraham posted on X.

In a subsequent post, Abraham said, “A group of settlers attacked the home of Hamdan Ballal, who directed the Oscar-winning film ‘No Other Land’ with me. They beat him in the head and all over his body. While wounded and bleeding, soldiers entered the ambulance he had called and arrested him. He has since disappeared and it is unclear whether he is receiving medical treatment or what is happening to him.”

The film’s other co-director Basel Adra also shared a photo, saying he was with Ballal’s 7-year-old son.

‘I’m standing with Karam, Hamdan’s 7-year-old son, near the blood of Hamdan’s in his house, after settlers attacked him.

Hamdan, co-director of our film No Other Land, is still missing after soldiers abducted him, injured and bleeding. This is how they erase Masafer Yatta,” Adra wrote.

Ballal is a Palestinian photographer from Susya, a settlement in Area C of the West Bank. Ballal shared a photo and caption from Susya, which described another settler attack against three Palestinian shepherds and showed a photo of a shepherd hospitalized with a head and ear injury caused by a stone.

He wrote in a week prior that Susya is “under continuous attacks” including 10 different severe assaults reported since the start of 2025.

No Other Land won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature earlier this month, where Abraham and Ballal were both in attendance along with their other co-director Basel Adra.

The film has been in the news after the Mayor of Miami Beach called on a local art house theater to stop screening the film, holding it is antisemitic, and sparking a public outcry.