The Oscar-winning director of a documentary on the Israel-Palestinian conflict was released from detention on Tuesday (March 25), a day after being injured and arrested during a raid by Israeli settlers on his village in the occupied West Bank.
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00:00The director of an Oscar-winning documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was
00:08released from Israeli detention on Tuesday.
00:11Hamdan Balal, who co-directed the film No Other Land, said he was assaulted by Israeli
00:16settlers in the occupied West Bank after filming them attacking his neighbor's house.
00:22Israeli police arrested three men, including Balal, who was injured during the standoff.
00:28I am a photographer, you know.
00:31I went there to document what's happened there.
00:34I'm just filming two shots.
00:37And then when I saw the settlers, it's like, become more and more and attack, throw stones
00:43and destroy everything, I back to my house because I was so scared if they coming to
00:50my family and my kids.
00:54So when I back there, I was outside, I close the door.
00:58What I let you, tell you before, I was just waiting outside.
01:05If any settlers or any army attacking my home, they came, the soldiers with the settlers
01:13attacking me and beating me and destroyed me.
01:19This is first time.
01:20And this is came, it's like first, I got the Oscar also.
01:25So this is like let you, it's like think, why they attacking you like this, it's like
01:31hard attack after the Oscar.
01:34In the beginning, yes, there's attack, but not like this.
01:37The army, they tried to stop the settler, but this, this is the attack.
01:42They came, the soldiers, they came attacking me with the settlers.
01:47Monday's incident was the latest in which Israeli settlers have been accused of raiding
01:51Palestinian or Bedouin villages and encampments in the West Bank, sometimes to steal livestock.
01:58Palestinians and activists who monitor such attacks say the police and army typically
02:02stand by without intervening.
02:05European countries and the previous U.S. administration of President Joe Biden have imposed sanctions
02:10on violent Israeli settlers, but under President Donald Trump, the White House has removed
02:15them.