JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra said Israeli soldiers conducted a raid at his home in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, searching for him and going through his wife’s phone.
Israeli settlers attacked his village, injuring two of his brothers and one cousin, Adra told The Associated Press. He accompanied them to the hospital. While there, he said that he heard from family in the village that nine Israeli soldiers had stormed his home.
The soldiers asked his wife, Suha, for his whereabouts and went through her phone while his 9-month-old daughter was home. They also briefly detained one of his uncles, he said.
Adra spent the night outside the village, unable to get home and check on his family because soldiers were blocking the village entrance and he was scared of being detained, he said.
Israel’s military said soldiers were in the village after Palestinians had thrown rocks, injuring two Israeli civilians. It said its forces were still in the village, searching the area and questioning people.
Adra said settlers attacked the Palestinians on their land and denied throwing rocks or seeing anyone from the village do so.
Again? Didn’t they beat and kidnap him earlier this year too?
I think everyone should watch No Other Land.
It gets a little tough in spots (nothing NSFW) but it’s important.
Been avoiding it because I don’t want to just cry. I literally cried during Superman when the little kid was raising the flag. Trying to stay quiet in the theater. It just reminded me of so much.
I know everything that’s in it. I’ve started 5/7 days of every week, for the last two years, listening to Amy Goodman (Democracy now) tell me what awful things happened the nights before.
I just avoid visuals now. After the call of the 9 year old in the car I don’t think anything beyond that is anything useful to “make me understand”. I don’t think it does anything but disable me for some time. The story of the pregnant women dead from an attack as the doctors tried to save her child. My wife was 7 months pregnant then.
I’m a stay at home parent with a kid right now. Lost my job at Microsoft because I spoke up about it’s support of genocide. I can get to a protest or picket line every couple weeks when my wife can watch our kid.
I just think for some of us that more witness of suffering is just disabling and no longer effective. Maybe I’ll watch it with my daughter someday. Gaza has defined a lot of my love and appreciation for her.