Oscar-winning Palestinian director freed from Israeli detention after night in custody

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land,” was released from Israeli custody on Tuesday, one day after he was assaulted by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and detained by Israeli forces. 

“After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family,” Yuval Abraham, Ballal’s Israeli co-director, wrote in a post on X.

What happened: On Monday night,…