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Express Tribune
5 hours ago
- General
- Express Tribune
Strangers to home
As a convoy moves in to raze brick houses to the ground, a community of villagers cries out. That's the limit to the brave front they can put up, as long as it doesn't upset their armed oppressors enough to open fire. These uniformed individuals then cite impassive demolition papers to justify bearing down on homes made of love and labour in Masafer Yatta in Palestine. A woman watches her quarters, her belongings, every corner of memory in her precious home being crushed to dust. Not subdued by aloof demands of relocation, she protests, "Where do we go? We have no other land. That's why we suffer for it." This picture might be familiar to you if you're on social media and have scrolled through countless pleas and tears entreating justice, all emerging from one Palestine torn apart by Israel's genocide. In that spirit, Palestinian activist Basel Adra picked up a camera to film his documentary, No Other Land, the moment he believed that the beginning of the end had become unavoidable. It's harrowing enough to watch social media to spell out the atrocities for you within a minute or two. But as I sat for over two hours at the screening for No Other Land organised by The Second Floor (T2F), I was compelled to face the spine-chilling reality with an intimacy that was difficult to evade. And that's exactly the point. Following a non-linear structure, the story of Masafer Yatta through Basel's eyes begins in 2019. In addition, Basel's own memories from 1999 slip into the narrative time and again to put into perspective that Israel's brutality following the October 7, 2023 attack wasn't merely a response but one aided by a veneered pretext. Letting it sink in Be it class debates or close-knit settings discussing the Palestinian struggle, I sit quietly and listen as intently as my twitchy mind allows me to. But when it comes to contributing to the conversation, I often find myself struggling to string together pointers that haven't already been said. Unsurprisingly, the same happened as No Other Land unfolded before my eyes. I was rendered speechless, as the cousin accompanying me would say. Basel's sturdy sense of hope along with the smiles that his people sport as defense are as heart-rending as they are warm, and just as soul-crushing as when Basel himself admits to Yuval that he's losing energy. It felt futile - speaking from a distance, watching from a distance. Then I saw Harun Abu Aram. Mirrored fragments The documentary shows Harun, an unarmed resident of Al-Tuwanah (a village to the south of Hebron), resisting as Israeli troops seize his electric generator. Moments into the heated escalation, the troops shoot Harun, cruelly subjecting him to lifelong paralysis. As time prolongs his suffering, Harun's mother hopes for one of two miracles: for God to take her life and restore her son to full health in exchange, or for death to relieve her son once and for all. Her second prayer is answered. Watching Harun and his family struck me with heart-sinking unease and thoughts that aren't easy to confront or pen down. Even after the screen faded to black, their plight stayed with me, haunted me to some capacity. It followed me back home to my bedridden aunt. For months, I have been struggling to put into words how I feel. When you're informed from the distance of a phone call that a loved one - a particularly lively one — has bled from the inside, the first companion to comfort you is denial. There are no tears, no adrenaline rush, no grief — just restless pacing and sleepless midnights that fade to tomorrows. Over and over again. When you see her again, you can barely recognise her. She looks the same, smooth-skinned and relaxed as she always has. But she's no longer fishing for compliments over an outfit she carefully picked or dissolving flimsy debates with a harmless joke. She just rests. That's all she prefers doing these days. The denial tricks you into thinking it's gone. But then you revisit old texts and send new ones for no real reason. Some days, you surprise yourself at your eagerness to initiate drawn-out conversations despite knowing that she can't respond. Every now and then, you recall a vivid memory because at least in your mind, her verve is eternal. Regularly, you squeeze her hand, fix her scarf, help her move, and cling onto hope. But now, you sit with the reminder that hope is a luxury in a war-torn world — and your smaller world is safely tucked away from it. Denial is not a helpful instrument for Harun's loved ones, who wait with bated breath for both good and bad news. Where they possess a wealth of love, they are robbed of resources. There is no comfort zone for them to retreat to. All they have is hope. And hope can be deceptive. It hurts differently when you watch Harun's family reserve the warmest blankets for him; it hurts close to home, even. But it can never hurt quite the same because no one can snatch those blankets from you or ruthlessly bury them under rubble. Because many of us didn't grow up surrounded by echoes of the same desperate question: "Why is it only illegal for us?" From the river to the sea At the time of writing this, a video has been circulating on social media: a silhouette of a girl moving hurriedly as she flees a line of flames rising well over her height. Israeli forces bombed her school, Fahmi al-Jargawi School, in Gaza while she was still inside. Earlier, the BBC reported that an Israeli airstrike targeted the home of a doctor in Gaza. While on duty at al-Tahrir hospital, she received the news that nine of 10 children had been killed. The eldest was 12 years old. In 2024, heavy rain poured down on over hundreds of tents of displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, as per Al Jazeera. Israel still blocked aid to the civilians. In 2023, medics evacuated premature babies from Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital after the Israeli army raided it over claims that Hamas was secretly operating from there. In 2020, Israeli authorities shot down 27 Palestinians, including seven minors, across occupied territories. And the scroll keeps on rolling. Individuals become stories, stories form headlines, and headlines are buried under statistics. It is as Basel said as he accepted the Oscar for his documentary, "No Other Land reflects the harsh reality that we have been enduring for decades and still we resist and call on the world to take serious action to stop this injustice." Against the shelling and gunfire, Palestinian resistance — as No Other Land depicts — births a throng fuelled by hope, chants with the ease of an anthem, and marches on. And resistance is the weight they all shoulder. It looks like mothers humouring their children out of despair, fathers stirring up spirits, and children standing up against armed soldiers as their schools are demolished. It exists in one shared sentiment: "They'll never make Palestinians leave this land."
Arab News
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Arab News
Paul Mescal spotlights Palestinian doc ‘No Other Land'
DUBAI: While promoting his latest film, 'The History of Sound,' at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Irish actor Paul Mescal took a moment to spotlight the Palestinian documentary 'No Other Land.' For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @ In a heartfelt statement, Mescal shared his experience watching the film in a packed Brooklyn theater, expressing profound upset over its limited distribution. He emphasized the importance of amplifying Palestinian voices and stories, highlighting the film's portrayal of the destruction of Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank. 'I remember sitting there in a packed-out theater in Brooklyn and just being so profoundly upset that the film hadn't, at that point, I still don't know if it has received distribution there. Having a cultural moment like that with a film like that, which is so wildly upsetting to see in a room. The story that I feel like needed to be told the most was being censored, it felt like almost. And the feeling in the room was one of great fear and sadness and it felt like the film was bigger than the four walls in which we were watching it,' he said. 'No Other Land,' the story of Palestinian activists fighting to protect their communities from demolition by the Israeli military, won the Oscar for best documentary earlier this year. The film's co-directors, Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham used their speeches to call for an end to the 'ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.' The film follows activist Adra as he risks arrest to document the destruction of his hometown, which Israeli soldiers are tearing down to use as a military training zone.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mark Ruffalo, Guy Pearce, Melissa Barrera and Ralph Fiennes Among 350+ Figures to Sign Letter About Killing of Palestinian Protagonist of Cannes-Bound Doc: ‘We Are Ashamed' of Industry ‘Passivity' (EXCLUSIVE)
A group of more than 350 international actors, directors and producers have signed a letter published on the first day of Cannes condemning the killing of Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian photojournalist and protagonist of the festival-bound documentary 'Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,' in an Israeli airstrike. The letter, signed by names such as Mark Ruffalo, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, Melissa Barrera, Yorgos Lanthimos, Javier Bardem, Hannah Einbinder, Pedro Almodóvar, David Cronenberg, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Leigh, Alex Gibney, Viggo Mortensen, Cynthia Nixon and many more, also called out the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' for its 'lack of support' for 'No Other Land' co-director Hamdan Ballal. More from Variety 'Megalopolis' Making-Of Doc 'Megadoc' Lands at Utopia One Year After Francis Ford Coppola's Self-Funded Epic Sent Cannes Into a Frenzy (EXCLUSIVE) Jason Segel to Lead James Ponsoldt Thriller 'Sponsor,' Selling at Cannes Susan Sarandon, Mike Leigh Among 600+ Signatories of Open Letter Demanding That BBC Air Delayed Gaza Medics Documentary Just three weeks after winning the Oscar for the documentary, Ballal was assaulted by settlers and kidnapped by the Israeli army. After being criticized for its silence over the incident, AMPAS eventually publicly apologized. 'We are ashamed of such passivity,' read the letter. But the letter also urged cinema — which it said was a 'breeding ground for socially committed works' — to use its art form to 'draw lessons from history, to make films that are committed' and to be 'present to protect oppressed voices.' It concluded: 'For Fatma, for all those who die in indifference. Cinema has a duty to carry their messages, to reflect our societies. Let's act before it's too late.' See the full letter and list of signatories below: Fatma Hassona was 25 years old. She was a Palestinian freelance photojournalist. She was targeted by the Israeli army on 16 April 2025, the day after it was announced that Sepideh Farsi's film 'Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,' in which she was the star, had been selected in the ACID section of the Cannes Film Festival. She was about to get married. Ten of her relatives, including her pregnant sister, were killed by the same Israeli strike. Since the terrible massacres of 7 October 2023, no foreign journalist has been authorised to enter the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army is targeting civilians. More than 200 journalists have been deliberately killed. Writers, film-makers and artists are being brutally murdered. At the end of March, Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for his film 'No Other Land,' was brutally attacked by Israeli settlers and then kidnapped by the army, before being released under international pressure. The Oscar Academy's lack of support for Hamdan Ballal sparked outrage among its own members and it had to publicly apologize for its inaction. We are ashamed of such passivity. Why is it that cinema, a breeding ground for socially committed works, seems to be so indifferent to the horror of reality and the oppression suffered by our sisters and brothers? As artists and cultural players, we cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in Gaza and this unspeakable news is hitting our communities hard. What is the point of our professions if not to draw lessons from history, to make films that are committed, if we are not present to protect oppressed voices? Why this silence? The far right, fascism, colonialism, anti-trans and anti-LGBTQIA+, sexist, racist, islamophobic and antisemitic movements are waging their battle on the battlefield of ideas, attacking publishing, cinema and universities, and that's why we have a duty to fight. Let's refuse to let our art be an accomplice to the worst. Let us rise up. Let us name reality. Let us collectively dare to look at it with the precision of our sensitive hearts, so that it can no longer be silenced and covered up. Let us reject the propaganda that constantly colonizes our imaginations and makes us lose our sense of humanity. For Fatma, for all those who die in indifference. Cinema has a duty to carry their messages, to reflect our societies. Let's act before it's too late. The signatories are: Khalid AbdallaNoée AbitaHany Abu-AssadRaphaëlle AgoguéIyad AlasttalCatia AlbertazziVlad AlexisTaraneh AlidoostiWaad Al-KateabYasmine Al MassriPedro AlmodóvarPedro AlonsoCristèle Alves MeiraSerdar AkarIndia AmarteifioGianni AmelioCarmine AmorosoElisa AmorusoRomain AndréRoberto AndòGeoff ArbourneFrancesca ArchibugiTiziana AristarcoSwann ArlaudOlivier AzamGökçe BahadirJeanne BalibarBalojiAvital BarakCarlos BardemJavier BardemMelissa BarreraBelma BaşDominique BaumardXavier BeauvoisSaïd Ben SaïdLeïla BekhtiLuca BellinoSuzy BembaAdila BendimeradKaouther Ben HaniaDali BenssalahFabrizio BentivoglioJulie BertuccelliSimone BittonKonstantin BojanovBertrand BonelloAgathe BonitzerAmélie BonninBruno BontzolakisLucie BorleteauSami BouajilaElodie BouchezBastien BouillonGuillaume BracRachida BrakniEvelyne BrochuSilvia BrunelliJean-Stéphane BronCeleste BrunnquellGianfranco CabidduEsmeralda CalabriaLaure CalamyMimmo CaloprestiMehmet Can MertoğluEric CantonaStefania CasiniAntonio 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Saba Yemen
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Saba Yemen
World artists condemn silence at genocide in Gaza
Paris - Saba: International artists condemned the silence regarding the genocide committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, calling on the film industry to take action to convey the suffering of the victims in an open letter on the eve of the Cannes Film Festival. According to Agence France-Presse, "Hours before the curtain rose on the Cannes Film Festival, 380 leading filmmakers issued an open letter published in Libération on Tuesday condemning the international silence regarding what they described as genocide in Gaza. They cited the killing of photographer Fatima Hassouna and expressed their disappointment with the Academy's response to the attack targeting Palestinian director Hamdan Bilal." The letter began, "We, cultural artists and actors, cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in Gaza." Prominent directors and actors, including Pedro Almodóvar, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere, Ruben Östlund, David Cronenberg, and Javier Bardem, signed the letter, bringing the total number of signatures to approximately 380 from various countries. The statement, which coincided with the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, recalled photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in mid-April. It explained that ten of her relatives, including her pregnant sister, were killed in the same raid. Hassouna is the star of a documentary being screened as part of the festival's program. The signatories also expressed concern about the lack of institutional support following the attack on Palestinian director Hamdan Bilal by settlers in late March, days after he won the Oscar for Best Documentary for No Other Land. They criticized the Academy's passivity, which they described as shameful. The signatories called for concrete action for all those who die in the face of indifference, emphasizing that cinema must carry their messages to the world. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Kuwait Times
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Kuwait Times
Zionists destroy West Bank hamlet, displacing about 100 Palestinians
KHALLET AL-DABAA, Palestine: Standing in the rubble of what used to be his home, Palestinian farmer Haitham Dababseh cleared stones to make space for a tent after Zionist army bulldozers destroyed his village in the occupied West Bank. Residents of Khallet Al-Dabaa and other hamlets in the West Bank's Masafer Yatta region have for years contended with violence from Zionist settlers and repeated demolitions. But the bulldozers that descended on Khallet Al-Dabaa on Monday carried out 'the biggest demolition we've ever had', said Dababseh, razing to the ground the hamlet that is home to about 100 Palestinians. Zionist forces 'came here in the past, they demolished three times, four times', the 34-year-old farmer told AFP, but never entirely destroyed a hamlet this size in Masafer Yatta. 'I just have my clothes. Everything I have is under the rubble.' Behind him, his 86-year-old father struggled to move the house's former door out of the way so that they can set up their shelter. Khallet Al-Dabaa is one of several villages featured at length in the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land', recounting the struggles of the Palestinian residents of the area in the West Bank's south, a frequent target of settler violence and army activities. Several of the communities shown in the documentary have experienced settler attacks or army demolitions since it won an Academy Award in March. No protection Several years after occupying the West Bank in 1967, the Zionist entity army had declared Masafer Yatta a restricted firing zone. Zionist forces regularly demolish structures that the military authorities say were built illegally in the area, where about 1,100 Palestinians live across several hamlets. 'Enforcement authorities of the Civil Administration dismantled a number of illegal structures that were built in a closed military zone in the South Hebron Hills,' the Zionist military told AFP in a statement on the Khallet Al-Dabaa demolition. 'The enforcement actions were carried out after the completion of all required administrative procedures and in accordance with the enforcement priority framework previously presented to the Supreme Court,' it added. Some residents, and many of their ancestors, once lived in caves in the rocky terrain to escape the area's stifling summer heat, and built houses with stone and other materials after the Zionist entity firing zone designation in the 1970s. Dababseh said he was the first member of his family to be born in a hospital and not a cave. He lamented that the army had blocked the entry to the cave near the family home where his father and grandfather were born. In the middle of Khallet Al-Dabaa, what served as a health and community center is now a pile of broken concrete with no walls. A torn logbook that an aid organization used to record residents' medical check-ups lay under dust. On the outside wall of the only structure left standing, a painted mural read 'Let me live'. Mohammed Rabaa, head of the nearby Tuwani village council which has jurisdiction over Khallet Al-Dabaa, told AFP that the foreign aid his community received was useless if the world 'can't protect it'. According to Rabaa, 'nine settler outposts were established in the Masafer Yatta area' since October 2023, when war began in Gaza. The West Bank is home to about three million Palestinians, but also some 500,000 Zionists living in settlements that are illegal under international law. Settlement outposts, built without the authorities' prior approval, are considered illegal under Zionist entity law too although enforcement is relatively rare. The settlers who live in the nearby outposts 'attack homes, burn property, destroy and vandalize' with full impunity and often under army protection, said Rabaa. To him, they aim to force Palestinians to leave and 'do not want any Palestinian presence'. The day after Khallet Al-Dabaa was razed, the Zionist entity's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right politician who lives in a settlement, expressed his hope that the government would formally annex the territory soon. Umm Ibrahim Dababseh, a 76-year-old woman who has lived in Khallet al-Dabaa for six decades, said she would not leave under any circumstances. 'I told them, 'make my grave right here',' she said of the Zionist entity soldiers, adding that they had to drag her out of her now ruined house. —AFP 'I didn't even get to wear my clothes properly,' she said, sitting with her granddaughters on a rock under the shade of an olive tree. Haitham Dababseh, a distant relative of Umm Ibrahim, said that hardships would not make him leave either. 'Last night, I slept there,' he said, pointing to a bed exposed to the elements on the hilltop. 'I have a bed, okay, I will cover myself with the sky, but I'm not leaving.' — AFP
