‘No Other Land’ director says IDF searched his house after he was attacked by settlers

CNN Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker and activist Basel Adra explained soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces IDF searched his house in the occupied West Bank after a group of Israeli settlers attacked him his family members and a foreign activist on Saturday On Saturday afternoon a group of settlers from the illegal Havat Ma on outpost near Adra s village of At-Tuwani began trespassing in his olive grove Adra notified CNN When Adra two of his brothers his cousin and a foreign activist attempted to confront the settlers they were attacked Adra revealed The police the army came when the settlers were attacking us Adra announced They did not stop them One of the settlers chased one of the solidarity activists and he beat her on the ground The soldiers were watching didn t do anything Adra noted that one of his brothers was run over by a settler riding an ATV and had to be hospitalized After the attack the IDF invaded At-Tuwani Adra declared searching his house for twenty minutes and looking through his wife s phone The army also blocked the village road to an ambulance Adra added We ve filed dozens of complaints against these same settlers for grazing their sheep among our olive trees Adra disclosed We bring the police and they do nothing CNN has reached out to the mayor of the regional council that includes Havat Ma on for comment The IDF informed CNN in a comment that they had deployed to At-Tuwani after they received a description regarding several terrorists who hurled rocks at Israeli civilians adjacent to At-Tuwani As a upshot of the rock hurling two Israeli civilians were injured and evacuated to receive physiological recovery the IDF wrote Upon receiving the summary the safety forces were dispatched to the scene and are at present conducting searches in the area and questioning subjects Adra denied that anyone in his group threw rocks calling the allegation bullshit They were attacking us on private land Adra disclosed of the settlers A March overview by activist groups Peace Now and Kerem Navot and verified by CNN satellite analysis detected that settlers established new illegal shepherding outposts between October and December an increase of The outposts which are illegal under both Israeli and international law are often founded by the preponderance extreme Israeli settlers Last year Adra and three other filmmakers won an Oscar for their documentary No Other Land which chronicled the forced displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank area of Masafer Yatta It isn t the first time that the filmmakers have been attacked since winning their award In March Adra s co-director on the film Hamdan Ballal was detained by Israeli forces overnight after being assaulted by settlers just after an iftar dinner during Ramadan At the time an activist who witnessed Ballal s assault advised CNN that such attacks are a regular occurrence They don t unfailingly involve an Oscar-winning filmmaker he commented