Oscar -winning Palestinian director Basel says that Israeli soldiers raided his home in the West Bank

Oscar -winning Palestinian director Psra ADRA Israeli soldiers said a raid on West Bank The house on Saturday, search for it and go via his wife’s phone.

Adra told Associated Press that the Israeli settlers attacked his village, wounding two of his brothers and one cousin. He accompanied them to the hospital. While he was there, he said that he heard from a village family that nine Israeli soldiers stormed his home.

He said that the soldiers asked his wife, Soha, about his whereabouts and went on her phone, while his 9 -month -old daughter was at home. They also briefly detained one of his uncles.

As of Saturday night, Edra said he had no way to return home to check his family, because the soldiers were blocking the village entrance and was afraid of arrest.

The Israeli army said that the soldiers were in the village after the Palestinians threw rocks, wounding Israeli civilians. She said that her forces are still in the village, where they are searching in the area and responding to people.

Adra spent his career as a journalist and a film director who dates the settlers’ violence in Masifer Yata, a group of villages in the southern tributaries of the West Bank, where he was born. After settlers The co -manager attacked Hamdan BaliIn March, AP told that he felt that they were targeting more since he won the Academy Award. Adra said that he witnessed the detention and said that about twenty settlers – some of them are masked, some carry weapons, and some in the Israeli uniform – attacked a village together. Balla said that the settlers struck him In front of his house while filming the attack.

Adra described the events on Saturday as “horrific”.

He said: “Even if you only photograph the settlers, the army comes and chasing you, looking for your home.” “The entire system is designed to attack us, to intimidate us, to make us very afraid.”

The other coach, Yaval Ibrahim, said he was “terrified of Basel.”

“What happened today in his village, we have seen this dynamic again and again, as Israeli settlers attack brutally a Palestinian village and after that the army comes, and attacks the Palestinians.”

“There is no other land,” This year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, depicted by the conflict by the residents of Masfir Yata to prevent the Israeli army from demolishing their villages. Ballal and Adra made the Palestinian -Israeli joint production with Israeli directors Abraham and Rashil Zour.

The film won a series of international awards, starting with the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024. It also drew anger in Israel and abroad. In March this year, Miami Beach suggested ending the cinema rental contract that shown the documentary, although it later retreated.

Israel acquired the West Bank in the Middle East war in 1967, along with the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. The three Palestinians want their future state and see the growth growth as a major obstacle to a two -state solution.

Israel built more than 100 settlements, home to more than 500,000 settlers who obtain Israeli citizenship. The 3 million Palestinians live in the West Bank apparently under the Israeli military rule, as the Western Authority -backed Palestinian Authority runs the population centers.

The appointed Israeli army appointed, Masaf Yata, in the southern West Bank, as a live training zone in the eighties and the order of the population, most of them Arabs in Denwin, to be expelled. About 1,000 residents have been largely in place, but the soldiers are moving regularly to the demolition of homes, tents, water tanks and olive groves – and the Palestinians are afraid of explicit expulsion at any time.

During the war in Gaza, Israel killed hundreds of Palestinians in the West Bank during wide military operations, and there was also a rise in settlers’ attacks on the Palestinians. There was also an increase in Palestinian attacks on Israelis.