India, March 25 -- Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, whose documentary "No Other Land" won an Oscar, was attacked by armed people and then allegedly arrested by the Israeli police in the West Bank on Monday, his co-directors said.

Co-director Yuval Abraham confirmed that his colleague Hamdan Ballal was lynched by a group of 'settlers'.

He said the filmmaker remained missing.

He wrote on X: "I'm standing with Karam, Hamdan's 7 year old son, near the blood of Hamdan's in his house, after settlers lynched him. Hamdan, co-director of our film No Other Land, is still missing after soldiers abducted him, injured and bleeding. This is how they erase Masafer Yatta."

Abraham said the filmmaker was injured in the attack.

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