Oscar-winning Palestinian director ‘attacked by Jewish settlers and detained’

From left, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham, winners of the award for best documentary feature film for No Other Land, in the press room at the Oscars in March (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene have said.

Dozens of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta area, destroying property, said the activist group Centre for Jewish Nonviolence.