Israeli soldiers prevented international journalists from entering villages in the West Bank contained in the Oscar -winning documentary No other landDuring a press tour organized by the participating managers Psra ADRA Yaval Ibrahim.
The couple invited more than ten local and international journalists to visit the ATRA village, which is located within a group of Bedouin villages in an area known as Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, to see evidence of settlers’ violence and demolishing the army.
A video posted by X by Adra and Abraham appears as a convincing Israeli soldier telling reporters to survey an area banned with a 10 -minute checkpoint, threatening them with legal measures if they fail to comply.
Ibrahim hears: “You know that they are journalists. They come to see the destruction in Masifer Yata, the way you destroy society, and the violence of the dangerous settler.”
The soldier suggests the embargo imposed on journalists who cross the West Bank is to preserve the “regime” in the region.
Adra interferes: “We go to my house inside. There will be no cars here. What is your problem? They come to my home in my village. Why don’t you prevent settlers when they come to burn homes and cars, and attack people? Why only for journalists who carry cameras and phones? Why?” Why? “
The journalist’s suggestion that the group will retract on foot instead of the car with the recurrence of the soldier who repeats the ban for the “system”, to the confusion of many in the group.
“In these crosses, there are neither journalists nor guests nor hundreds of people to maintain order in the region … Here you are a general disorder,” he says, stands on a lower empty road.
ADRA villages are among a group of Hamlets also including Hafaweh, Mirkez, Jimba and Susya, which is located on the side of the Palestinian West Bank of the Green Line of 1949.
Their future has been at stake since then Israel Many lands that are located in a live training zone in the 1980s, where their residents are subjected to additional pressure from building illegal Israeli settlements on the threshold of their door such as Carmel and Maun.
No other land Who won the Best Documentary Academy Award following the Adra trip where the MASAFER YATA and Bedouin community are documented over the years, and Israeli journalist Ibrahim’s attempts to amplify this novel.
The work was presented in the world in 2023, where he won the Prize and the Berlinale Documentary Award.
In the wake of Oscar’s victory, the residents of the villages of Massifer Yata hoped that the award would help their issue while the documentary was exposed to the challenges they face to the international public.
Instead, there was a rise in the violence of the settlers, while Israel rose its plans to purify the villages of Badwin, and A-Daba village wandered on May 5.
In March, just weeks after Oscar’s documentary victory, Hamdan Balla, co -director of the film alongside Adra, Abraham and Rachel Szor, Attack by a group of Israeli settlers Close to his village, then the soldiers arrested her and was held overnight at an army facility.
