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 ...

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.

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.

"Los Angeles and the Oscars were of an entirely different world from the one I know," the 'No Other Land' filmmaker said in a ...

“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.

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 ...