No isolated event’: attack on Palestinian director brings rising settler violence into focus

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It was about 6pm, just after its Palestinian residents had finished their daily Ramadan fast, when dozens of masked Israeli settlers armed with batons, knives and assault rifles entered the West Bank village of Susiya, in the rural Masafer Yatta area of the south Hebron hills. Among them were a group of Israeli soldiers who escorted the settlers into the village where Hamdan Ballal, one of the four directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, lives...

Ballal said that two Israeli soldiers had chased him outside his house and encircled him, while a settler started beating him, before violently striking him on the head with the butt of their rifles. 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/28/attack-palestinian-director-rising-israeli-settler-violence-