Overview
- Hamdan Ballal reported a Feb. 15–16 incident in which his brother was hospitalized and four relatives were detained after a raid at the family home in the West Bank village of Susya.
- Al Jazeera reported that the detained relatives, including two brothers, a nephew and a cousin, were later released after being held for several hours.
- The alleged assailant was identified as Shem Tov Lusky, whom Ballal has also accused of attacking him shortly after the film’s Oscar win in 2025.
- Ballal said the army arrived before police, raided the house and made arrests, alleging that security forces did not uphold a court order issued two weeks earlier restricting non-residents near his home.
- The incident was reported shortly after Israel’s government approved resuming West Bank land registration for the first time since 1967, a move critics warn could formalize dispossession of Palestinians.