Oscar-winning Palestinian director injured in attack
The Oscar-winning director of a documentary on the Israel-Palestinian conflict was arrested late on Monday.
After being injured during a raid by Israeli settlers on his village.
Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the award-winning "No Other Land", was attending a gathering for Iftar.
When a group of settlers attacked the gathering.
Israeli police arrested three men.
Lamia Ballal, the filmmaker's wife, said settlers had gathered around the family house and her husband had gone outside to prevent them from breaking in.
The Israeli military said police and soldiers intervened after Palestinians threw rocks at the vehicles of Israeli citizens and later at Israeli security forces.