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

JERUSALEM - Israeli police on March 25 released Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, detained a day earlier for “hurling rocks” following what activists described as an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was beaten by settlers in the West Bank, detained by Israeli soldiers overnight and has now been let free, according to a group of activists from the Center for Jewish Nonviolence and the film’s co-director, Yuval Abraham.