"The army came first and immediately raided our house, attacking everyone inside, Ballal said, standing outside his small concrete home, set halfway up a rocky hillside."
"He gave the soldiers the order, and then they called my brother and pushed him down on the ground asking for his ID, Ballal said. One of them held my brother round his neck and pushed very, very hard and so that my brother couldn't catch his breath. His face turned blue and my nephews when they saw it were scared he would die, so they took him directly to hospital."
Co-director Hamdan Ballal, of the Oscar-winning No Other Land, reported renewed attacks on his home and family in Susya, Masafer Yatta. A group of settlers who had long harassed villagers came to the house after an Israeli court banned non-residents from the area. Ballal called for police two weeks after the order, but two soldiers arrived accompanied by a settler leader. Soldiers raided the house, pushed Ballal's brother Mohammed to the ground, and one soldier choked him, sending him to hospital for oxygen and neck trauma. Several relatives were detained blindfolded and handcuffed for three hours and released at night on a settler-used road.
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