Wife of Palestinian film director says he was savagely beaten outside his home

Hamdan Ballal worked on Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (Raviv Rose via AP)

The wife of an Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was reportedly attacked by Jewish settlers before being detained by the Israeli army said that he was beaten in front of his home by three men in military fatigues while another filmed it.

Hamdan Ballal and the other directors of No Other Land, which looks at the struggles of living under Israeli occupation, appeared on stage at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month when it won the award for best documentary film.