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| West Bank home of Basel Adra, activist and Oscar-winning director, raided by IDF |
| 2025-09-14 |
Not mentioned is all the times the Palestinians harassed the Israelis before the Israelis responded... [IsraelTimes] Military says it carried out raid on his village, at-Tuwani, after two Israelis were injured when ‘a number of terrorists hurled stones’ at themPalestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra said that Israeli soldiers conducted a raid at his West Bank home on Saturday, searching for him and going through his wife’s phone. The Israel Defense Forces said the raid occurred after two Israelis were injured by stone-throwing in the area. 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, he said, while his 9-month-old daughter was home. They also briefly detained one of his uncles, he said. As of Saturday night, Adra said he had no way of returning home to check on his family, because soldiers were blocking the entrance to the village and he was scared of being detained. The military said in response to an inquiry that it had received reports that “a number of terrorists hurled stones at Israeli civilians near at-Tuwani.” As a result of the stone throwing, two Israelis were injured, it said. Following the reports, the IDF said it dispatched troops to the scene, “and they are currently scanning the area and questioning suspects.” Among those questioned was Adra, a military source confirmed to The Times of Israel. Adra has spent his career as a journalist and filmmaker chronicling settler violence in Masafer Yatta, the southern reaches of the West Bank where he was born. In other words, he is a propagandist… After settlers attacked his co-director, Hamdan Ballal, in March, he told the AP that he felt they were being targeted more intensely since winning the Oscar. |
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