以色列特拉维夫-三周前，哈姆丹·巴拉勒站在奥斯卡的舞台上，手里拿着金像，作为《别无它地》的联合导演获得了最佳纪录片奖。这是一个团结共存的激动人心的时刻。
周二，遍体鳞伤的他在约旦河约旦河西岸希布伦的医院病床上接受了美国广播公司的电话采访。
“我很害怕，”巴拉尔说。“真的，我害怕。我觉得，当他们攻击我的时候，我会失去我的生命。”
Ballal说，周一，他在位于Susiya村外的家中遭到犹太定居者的毒打。
定居者来到村庄投掷石块，骚扰居民，包括他的邻居，Ballal说，自从他本月早些时候获得奥斯卡奖以来，这种事情越来越频繁地发生。
他在赶回家之前开始拍摄，试图阻止定居者进入他的房子。他说，袭击就是从那时开始的，几名男子袭击了他的头部和身体，包括用枪打他。
“这是一次非常非常艰难的进攻，”巴拉尔说。“你知道，我觉得我会死，因为这次袭击太猛烈了，我到处都在流血。我在内心深处哭泣。我觉得全身都疼。所以，他们持续攻击我15-20分钟。”
他说，除了一名便衣定居者，在场的还有两名男子，他称之为“持枪士兵”，尽管他不能确定他们是谁，也不能确定他们可能代表哪个以色列当局。
以色列国防军和以色列警方否认参与任何殴打。
以色列当局表示，Ballal和其他几个人因涉嫌投掷石块、破坏财产和危及该地区安全而被拘留。一名犹太定居者也被逮捕。
根据一份警方声明，包括Ballal在内的巴勒斯坦人被审问，关押了一夜，最终“在不联系其他涉案人员和自我保释的条件下”被释放。
警方称调查仍在继续，但Ballal强烈否认他做了任何错事。
“我没有扔石头，我没有和定居者发生任何问题，”Ballal说。“定居者袭击我，殴打我。就是这样。”
Ballal的奥斯卡获奖纪录片聚焦于一个社区试图抵抗以色列政府将巴勒斯坦人强行驱逐出约旦河西岸南部地区。
近几十年来，约旦河西岸的以色列定居者人数急剧增加。
巴勒斯坦人、人权组织和联合国指责他们在试图让巴勒斯坦人通过约旦河西岸流离失所的过程中扮演了非官方的角色，极端分子实施暴力袭击，旨在恐吓、灌输恐惧，并最终迫使人们离开他们世代称之为家园的地方。
“自战争以来，定居者的暴力行为严重恶化，”人权观察组织(Human Rights Watch)的项目主管萨里·巴希(Sari Bashi)说。“那些没有被军队直接驱逐的人只能在那些把他们从自己的土地上吓跑的暴力定居者中自生自灭。”
批评者称，以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡领导的右翼联盟，往好里说，对暴力视而不见，往坏里说，公然鼓励暴力，根据知名定居者活动人士和一些政府极右翼成员的说法，最终目标是完全吞并约旦河西岸。
政府否认对定居者的暴力行为负责，并将持续的动荡主要归咎于巴勒斯坦人，尽管有时也归咎于定居者。内塔尼亚胡政府用圣经中的名字朱迪亚和撒马利亚来称呼约旦河约旦河西岸，称该地区充斥着针对约旦河西岸定居点和以色列境内以色列人的恐怖活动。以色列政府辩称，为了保证以色列人的安全，他们在约旦河西岸的行动是必要的。
活动人士经常说，对约旦河西岸大部分地区进行安全控制的以色列警察和以色列国防军未能保护他们免受定居者的袭击，也未能充分起诉定居者的暴力案件。当定居者和活动分子之间的混战升级时，以色列国防军进行干预，但起诉定居者的暴力行为很少。根据非政府组织Yesh Din的数据，从2005年到2024年，1，000多起调查中只有3%以定罪告终。
定居者经常为他们的行为援引深刻的宗教必要性。其他人认为袭击是对巴勒斯坦致命恐怖袭击的报复。许多人习惯性地否认对约旦河西岸的暴力行为负责，这些暴力行为近年来有所增加，但已经持续了几十年。
Ballal于周二出院。美国广播公司新闻问他，如果他担心自己的生命安全，为什么选择公开讲话。
“我从出生开始就这样害怕，直到现在，”Ballal说。“所以，我必须发言。是的，我很害怕，但是我一辈子都是这种情况。所以我希望，我希望，因为我与[美国广播公司新闻]交谈，它可以改变一些事情。”
Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal speaks to ABC News from hospital: 'It was a hard, hard attack'
TEL AVIV, Israel --Three weeks ago,Hamdan Ballalstood on the stage at the Oscars, golden statue in hand, winner of the award for best documentary as the co-director of "No Other Land." It was an inspiring moment of unity and coexistence.
On Tuesday, bloodied and bruised, he spoke to ABC News on the phone from a hospital bed in Hebron in the West Bank.
"I'm afraid," Ballal said. "Really, I'm afraid. I feel, when they attack me, I will lose my life."
Ballal said he was severely beaten at the hands of Jewish settlers at his home on Monday, just outside the village of Susiya.
Settlers had come into the village throwing stones and harassing residents, including his neighbor, something Ballal says had been happening with increasing frequency since his Oscar win earlier this month.
He started filming before rushing home to his family, trying to block settlers from coming into his house. That's when the attack began, he said, with several men attacking his head and body, including hitting him with guns.
"It was a hard, hard attack," Ballal said. "You know, I feel I will die, because this attack was so hard, I bleed from everywhere. I'm crying from deeply in my heart. I feel pain everywhere in my body. So, they continue attacking me like 15-20 minutes."
He said that, in addition to a plainclothes settler, there were two men present he described as "soldiers with guns," although he could not say for sure who they were or which Israeli authority they might have represented.
The Israel Defense Forces and Israel Police have denied being involved in any beating.
Israeli authorities said that Ballal was detained along with several others on suspicion of throwing stones, damaging property and compromising the security of the area. A Jewish settler was arrested, as well.
The Palestinians -- including Ballal -- were questioned, held overnight and ultimately released "on conditions that include not contacting other people involved and self-bail," according to a police statement.
Police say the investigation is continuing, but Ballal strongly denies he did anything wrong.
"I didn't throw stones, I didn't do any problems with the settlers," Ballal said. "The settlers came attacking me and beating me. That's it."
Ballal's Oscar-winning documentary focused on a community's attempts to resist forced expulsion of Palestinians from a southern area of the West Bank by the Israeli government.
The number of Israeli settlers has dramatically increased in the West Bank in recent decades.
Palestinians, human rights groups and the United Nations have accused them of playing an unofficial role in the attempted displacement of Palestinians through the West Bank, with extremists carrying out violent attacks designed to intimidate, instill fear and ultimately force people out of a place they have called home for generations.
"The settler violence has worsened considerably since the war," said Sari Bashi, a program director at Human Rights Watch. "The people whom the army doesn't directly displace are left to fend for themselves among violent settlers who scare them off their land."
Critics say the right-wing coalition of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, at best, turned a blind eye to the violence and, at worst, outright encouraged it, with the ultimate goal, according to prominent settler activists and some far-right members of the government, of annexing the West Bank entirely.
The government has denied responsibility for settler violence and has primarily blamed Palestinians for the continued unrest, though sometimes it blames settlers as well. Netanyahu's government, which refers to the West Bank by its biblical names of Judea and Samaria, argues that the area is replete with terrorist activity that targets Israelis both in West Bank settlements and inside Israel. The government argues its actions in the West Bank are necessary to keep Israelis safe.
Activists often say that the Israeli Police and the IDF, who have security control over most of the West Bank, fail to protect them from settler attacks or adequately prosecute cases of settler violence.The IDF intervenes when scuffles between settlers and activists escalate, but prosecuting settler violence is rare. From 2005 to 2024, only 3% of more than 1,000 investigations ended in convictions, according to the nongovernmental organization Yesh Din.
The settlers often cite a deep religious imperative for their actions. Others view attacks as vengeance for deadly Palestinian terror attacks. Many routinely deny responsibility for the West Bank acts of violence that have risen in recent years but have gone on for decades.
Ballal was released from the hospital on Tuesday. ABC News asked why he chose to speak publicly if he is afraid for his life.
"I've been afraid like this since I was born, until now," Ballal said. "So, I have to speak. Yes, I'm afraid, but I live this situation all my life. So I hope, I hope, because I speak with [ABC News], it can change something."
