"I felt like these were the last moments of my life." Palestinian filmmaker and Oscar winner for the documentary "No Other Land", Hamdan Ballal, recalls the events of 24 March in which he was arrested by Israeli police after being "brutally" attacked by settlers in his village of Susya, south of the occupied West Bank.
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00:00I felt that these were the last moments of my life, I was going to lose my life from the
00:13intensity of the blow.
00:14My head was between the feet of the settler, the door and the wall, like a brick.
00:35The settlers were coming in numbers.
00:38They started to hit the house with stones and break it.
00:44I went back and filmed two or three shots.
00:50When I saw that the number of settlers was increasing and their attacks were more violent,
00:55I was afraid for my family at home.
00:59I quickly went back to the house.
01:08The soldiers started to shout at me and raise their weapons towards me.
01:13Within a few moments, the settler turned around and attacked me.
01:19He hit me in the back of the head.
01:23When I received the blow, I fell to the ground.
01:27I could not move.
01:30I was hit in the back of the head.
01:33When I received the blow, I fell to the ground.
01:37I was filming and my phone fell to the ground.
01:41The settler continued to hit me violently.
01:45The soldiers threatened me.
02:04Welcome, my friend.
02:12I felt the violence was because of the Oscars.
02:18When I was in the military base, I was sure that the army shifts were changing.
02:25When you hear the sound of the shifts changing,
02:29each shift would say my name and the name of the Oscars.
02:33I did not understand.
02:36I only understood my name and the name of the Oscars.
03:03I was very happy.