An interviewee in an Oscar-winning documentary on Palestine is believed to have been ‘shot in the chest by an Israeli settler’.
Odeh Hadalin, a prominent activist who featured in ‘No Other Land’, has reportedly been shot by an Israeli settler, who is under sanctions by both the EU and the US.
In a video shared on social media the Israeli can be seen wildly brandishing a gun and shooting it into the air.
Yuval Abraham, the co-director of the film, reported Alhadlin’s death on X, claiming he had been ‘murdered’.
It comes after the other co-director of the same documentary, Hamdan Ballal, was also reported attacked by Israeli settlers on the West Bank before being detained by the military.
An anti-Zionist Jewish activist group said dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron.
Members of the Center for Jewish Nonviolence said a rampaging mob descended upon the village, throwing stones, smashing windows, slashing car tyres and destroying a war tank in the village.

Odeh Hadalin, a prominent activist who featured in ‘No Other Land’, has reportedly been shot by an Israeli settler, who is under sanctions by both the EU and the US

In a video shared on social media the Israeli can be seen wildly brandishing a gun and shooting it into the air

In a video shared on social media the Israeli can be seen wildly brandishing a gun and shooting it into the air

Yuval Abraham, the co-director of the film, reported Alhadlin’s death on X, claiming he had been ‘murdered’. Pictured: Odeh Hadalin
The settlers beat the director, leaving him bleeding from the head, and threw punches at activists. While Ballal was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) detained him and a second Palestinian man, the group added.
Joseph, one of the five activists who witnessed the brutal attack, said the filmmaker was surrounded by a group of around 15 armed settlers.
‘They started throwing stones towards Palestinians and destroyed a water tank near Hamdan’s house,’ he told The Guardian.
Another activist Raviv, told the same publication: ‘The settlers destroyed his car with stones and slashed one of the tyres.’
Video provided by the Center for Jewish Nonviolence showed a masked settler shoving and swinging his fists at two activists from the group in a dusty field at night.
The activists rush back to their car. ‘Get in, get in!’ one shouts, and they duck inside as the thuds of rocks being thrown can be heard. ‘Car window was broken,’ the driver says as they drive off.

No Other Land, co-directed by Hamdan Ballal, highlights the plight of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

No Other Land co-directors (left to right) Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham clutch their awards after winning Best Documentary at this year’s Oscars

The back window of the car belonging to the Center for Jewish Nonviolence was broken after rocks were thrown at the activists when driving away from the attack
In another video, posted by Israeli investigative journalist and filmmaker Yuval Abraham, one of the co-directors of No Other Land, masked men reported to be settlers are seen sprinting towards a car before hurling a rock through its window.
Chase Carter, the development and communications director for the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, said: ‘Tonight, the Oscar-winning Director of No Other Land Hamdan Ballal was attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested by the Israeli army in his home village of Susiya in Masafer Yatta.
‘The group of assailants arrived at approximately 6PM with batons, knives, and at least one assault rifle; many were also masked.
‘Five Jewish American activists responded to the scene to document the attack and they were violently assaulted by the settlers, who also used rocks to smash their car with the activists inside.’
No Other Land, which won the Oscar this year for best documentary, chronicles the struggle by residents of Masafer Yatta to stop the Israeli military from demolishing their villages and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
The film has two Palestinian co-directors, Ballal and Basel Adra, both residents of Masafar Yatta, and two Israeli directors, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.

Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was reportedly attacked by masked Israeli settlers on the West Bank before being detained as he was being treated for his injuries
The documentary won a string of international awards, starting at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024.
However viewings have drawn ire in Israel and abroad, with the mayor of Miami Beach in Florida briefly proposing to ending the lease and withdrawal all funding to a movie theatre that screened the documentary.
The Israeli military designated the village of Masafer Yatta as a live-fire training zone in the 1980s and ordered residents, mostly Arab Bedouin, to be expelled.
However, around 1,000 residents have largely remained in place, but soldiers regularly move in to demolish homes, tents, water tanks and olive orchards – and Palestinians fear outright expulsion could come at any time.
While the West Bank is the larger of the two Palestinian territories, Israel captured the area in the 1967 Six-Day War, along with the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, and has occupied it ever since.