Israel releases Oscar-winning #Palestinian director after he was attacked by West Bank settlers

By JULIA FRANKEL
Updated 11:55 AM EDT, March 25, 2025

HEBRON, #WestBank (AP) — "#Israeli authorities released an Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was detained by the army after being attacked by #JewishSettlers in the occupied West Bank. He said they beat him in front of his home while they filmed the assault.

"#HamdanBallal and the other directors of '#NoOtherLand,' which looks at the struggles of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, had mounted the stage at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month when it won the award for best documentary film.

"On Tuesday, with bruises on his face and blood on his clothes, he was released from an Israeli police station in the West Bank settlement of #KiryatArba. He and two other Palestinians who had been attacked and detained were taken to a nearby hospital.

"Ballal said he was held at an army base, blindfolded for 24 hours and forced to sleep under a freezing air conditioner.

"'All my body is pain,' he told The Associated Press. “I heard the voices of the soldiers, they were laughing about me … I heard ‘Oscar’ but I didn’t speak Hebrew.'

"Lea Tsemel, the attorney representing the three men, said they received only minimal care for their injuries from the attack and that she had no access to them for several hours after their arrest."

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#IDFTerrorism #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #IsraeliSettlers

#SurveillanceState

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

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Founded with American VC, #Israeli spyware firm #ParagonSolution seems to be coming full circle: the #US VC company AE Industrial Partners seems to have acquired it recently:

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...shortly after signing a $2m contract with the infamous #ICE:

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

2025-01-31 22:58:04

*#GleichschaltungDerPresse in den #USA--Stufe 2*
#USpol #Sicherheit #Datenschutz
#Spyware #Meta #Zuckerberg
#WhatsApp #ParagonSolutions
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...US-Einwanderungs- 5 Zollbehörde #ICE abgeschlossen hat.👈"
#ParagonSolutions soll vor kurzem von der #US-Private-Equity-Firma AE Industrial Partners gekauft worden sein. 3)//

3)
"... #Graphite"-Software, die sich auf die Extraktion von Informationen aus verschlüsselten Apps konzentriert & dabei ethische Beschränkungen einhält."
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Israeli Paragon Solutions will be acquired by US AE Industrial Partners

If Paragon deal goes through, $500 million will be split among 400 employees and 5 entrepreneurs.

^{By MEYTAL VAIZBERG/GLOBES/TNS (The Jerusalem Post)}