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.

TEL AVIV—A Palestinian co-director of an Oscar-winning film was released from Israeli custody on Tuesday after he was attacked by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and then detained and ...

The Oscar-winning director of a documentary on the Israel-Palestinian conflict was released from detention on Tuesday, a day after being injured and arrested during a raid by Israeli settlers on ...

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 ...

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

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

“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 ...

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 ...

Oscar-winning "No Other Land" director Hamdan Ballal was beaten by Israeli soldiers and kept in inhumane conditions for more ...