A Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land” was beaten bloody near his home by Israeli settlers and detained by the Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank on Monday evening, witnesses said. The director, Hamdan Ballal, was set upon in Susya, his home village, by at least 20 masked people, mostly teenagers armed with rocks, sticks and knives, according to Joseph Kaplan Weinger, 26, who said he had come upon the attack after it began. It was not clear what prompted the attack, but Weinger, who is also a doctoral student in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the group had descended on Susya and assaulted West Bank residents as they were breaking the fast during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
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