Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was beaten by Israeli settlers and detained Monday, according to his co-director.

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers close to his West Bank village on Monday and then arrested by soldiers, according to the documentary’s Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham.

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.