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‘No Other Land’ co-director Hamdan Ballal, bloodied and bruised, released from Israeli custody

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Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian filmmakers who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” is free. He was released Tuesday from Israeli custody, less than a day after Israeli military and police detained him and three other people following a brutal attack Monday by settlers in the occupied West Bank. Ballal was released … Read more

‘Napalm Girl’ photographer Nick Ut responds to claim that he didn’t take famous photo: ‘a slap in the face’

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut has spoken out against claims that his famous 1972 photo of a terrified child running from a napalm bomb attack on her village during the Vietnam War was actually taken by someone else. “I took the photo of [Phan Thi] Kim Phuc,” Ut wrote in a statement Wednesday posted to … Read more