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Congress must act swiftly to demand an Independent Investigation of these illegal Israeli settler attacks and impose severe sanctions on the assailants. Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained by the army. Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land” on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to two of his fellow directors and other witnesses - Associated Press A Palestinian Director of ‘No Other Land’ Is Attacked and Detained, Witnesses Say Hamdan Ballal was assaulted by masked attackers in his home village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, witnesses said. The Israeli military said he had been detained for questioning - The New York Times Oscar-winning Palestinian director was beaten and arrested in West Bank, co-filmmaker says Activists say “No Other Land” co-director Hamdan Ballal is missing. Director Yuval Abraham said on X that co-director Hamdan Ballal was beaten by a “group of settlers” and had sustained injuries to his head and stomach in the Palestinian village of Susiya, Masafer Yatta. He added that Ballal was able to call an ambulance but that Israeli soldiers took him from it - NBC News