Israeli Army occupies the home of Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra, Oscar winner

The Israeli Army occupied on Saturday (10) the house of Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra, Oscar winner for best documentary in 2024 with No Other Landafter an attack of settlers to the village of Al Tuwani in southern West Bank. The complaint was made by the film’s codire, the Israeli Yuval Abraham, to Efe.

“I am very afraid of Basel now. What happens repeatedly is that the settlers attack Palestinian villages, and then the soldiers come and attack the Palestinians,” Abraham said. He added that some ADRA relatives were assaulted by the settlers. The filmmaker’s whereabouts remain unknown.

Red crescent teams confirmed that three Palestinians were injured in the settlement of settlers, two of them hospitalized.

Applicant target of violence

The village of Al Tuwani, part of the region of Masafer Yatta, has been a constant target of attacks since the beginning of the war in Gaza in October 2023. Adra’s documentary records this daily life of demolitions, expulsions and aggressions suffered by Palestinians in the West Bank.

On July 28, another movie activist, Odeh Hadalin, was shot dead by a settler in a similar episode.

More than 100 dead in Gaza in two days

Meanwhile, the Israeli offensive in Gaza has reached new levels of destruction. Only on Saturday, 66 people were killed in the city of Gaza in attacks described by residents as the most intense in weeks. The numbers were compiled on necroteriums from local hospitals, including those from Al Shifa, Batista and Al Awda.

According to the director of Al Shifa Hospital, Mohammad Abu Salmia, there were only 35 dead and 120 injured in serious condition. “The death toll should increase. We have reached the limit of our capacity,” he said.

On Friday, the Ministry of Health of Gaza had reported 47 other deaths in 24 hours, including five people expected to distribute humanitarian aid. The total of dead since October 2023 reached 64,800.

Dwelling

In addition to bombing, the Israeli army intensified the demolition of residential buildings. On Saturday, he destroyed the Nour Tower, a 12 -story building, half an hour after sorting his evacuation.

In recent days, 12 residential towers with more than seven floors have been destroyed, along with 120 smaller buildings, leaving more than 7,200 homeless people. In all, 30,000 residents had to flee damaged houses.

The Israeli army stated that 250,000 people have already left the city of Gaza to southern, in response to forced displacement orders.

Art, War and Resistance

The occupation of the house of Basel Adra symbolizes the intersection between culture and conflict. Your movie No Other Land It portrays precisely the forced displacement of Palestinian families, a process that has intensified since the beginning of the offensive in Gaza. Now the filmmaker himself has become a direct target of this dynamic of violence.