An Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker was reportedly attacked by Israeli settlers on the West Bank before being detained by the military.
Hamdan Ballal was one of the co-directors of No Other Land, which scooped the Best Documentary category at this year's Academy Awards.
An anti-Zionist Jewish activist group said dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron.
Members of the Center for Jewish Nonviolence said a rampaging mob descended upon the village, throwing stones, smashing windows, slashing car tyres and destroying a war tank in the village.
The settlers beat the director, leaving him bleeding from the head, and threw punches at activists. While Ballal was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) detained him and a second Palestinian man, the group added.
Joseph, one of the five activists who witnessed the brutal attack, said the filmmaker was surrounded by a group of around 15 armed settlers.
'They started throwing stones towards Palestinians and destroyed a water tank near Hamdan's house,' he told The Guardian.
Another activist Raviv, told the same publication: 'The settlers destroyed his car with stones and slashed one of the tyres.'