"Palestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra has said that Israeli soldiers have conducted a raid at his West Bank home, searching for him and going through his wife's phone. Israeli settlers attacked his village on Saturday, injuring two of his brothers and one cousin, Adra told the Associated Press. He accompanied them to the hospital. While there, he said that he heard from family in the village that nine Israeli soldiers had stormed his home."
"After settlers attacked his co-director, Hamdan Ballal, in March, he told the AP that he felt they were being targeted more intensely since winning the Oscar. He described Saturday's events as horrific. Even if you are just filming the settlers, the army comes and chases you, searches your house, he said. The whole system is built to attack us, to terrify us, to make us very scared."
Israeli settlers attacked a village in Masafer Yatta, injuring two of Basel Adra's brothers and one cousin, prompting Adra to accompany them to hospital. While he was at the hospital, family reported that nine Israeli soldiers stormed his home, asked his wife for his whereabouts and went through her phone while their nine-month-old daughter remained at home, and one uncle was briefly detained. Adra said he could not return home because soldiers blocked the village entrance and he feared detention. Israel's military said its forces entered after Palestinians threw rocks and that soldiers remained searching and questioning residents. Adra has documented settler violence in the area and said he and colleagues feel increasingly targeted.
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