HEBRON, West Bank (AP): An Oscar-winning Palestinian director and two others have been released by Israel, a day after he was badly beaten by Jewish settlers and detained by Israeli forces in the ...

Hamdan Ballal told the AP how he was kicked in the head during an Israeli settler attack on his village and then held and beaten on an army base.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities released a Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary " No Other Land," a day after he was beaten by Jewish settlers and detained by soldiers.

“I realized they were attacking me specifically,” he said in an interview at a West Bank hospital after his release ... Basel Adra, Palestinian co-director of the Oscar winner documentary ...

Hamdan Ballal says he was assaulted by settlers and soldiers outside his home in Susiya in the occupied West Bank.

Only a few weeks ago, Hamdan Ballal stood on a stage in Los Angeles accepting an Oscar for the film "No Other Land," a documentary depicting his West Bank village's struggle against Israel's ...

The Academy faced criticism from a number of Hollywood stars for its initial response to the attack on filmmaker Hamdan Ballal.

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Only a few weeks ago, Hamdan Ballal stood on a stage in Los Angeles accepting an Oscar ... his release as he walked, limping, toward a hospital in the nearby Palestinian ...