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Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal (No Man’s Land) was attacked by a group of 15 armed Israeli settlers and then arrested by the Israeli army. “They let the settlers attack him and then the army abducted him.”

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Ballal has been released by Israeli authorities.

Ballal said he was held at an army base, blindfolded for 24 hours and forced to sleep under a freezing air conditioner.

"All my body is pain," he told The Associated Press. "I heard the voices of the soldiers, they were laughing about me ... I heard 'Oscar' but I didn't speak Hebrew."

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