PALESTINIAN Oscar-winning director Basel Adra said Israeli soldiers conducted a raid at his home in the occupied West Bank on Saturday.

Israeli settlers attacked his village, injuring two of his brothers and one cousin, Mr Adra told reporters. 

On accompanying them to the hospital, he heard from family in the village that nine Israeli soldiers had stormed his home, he said. 

The soldiers asked his wife, Suha, for his whereabouts and went through her phone while his nine-month-old daughter was at home. They also briefly detained one of his uncles, he said.

Mr Adra, whose film No Other Land won an Oscar for best documentary, spent the night outside the village, unable to get home and check on his family because soldiers were blocking the village entrance, and he was scared of being detained, he said.

Israel’s military said soldiers were in the village after Palestinians had thrown rocks, injuring two Israeli civilians. It said its forces were still in the village, searching the area and questioning people.

Mr Adra has spent his career as a journalist and film-maker chronicling settler violence in Masafer Yatta, the southern reaches of the West Bank where he was born.

After settlers attacked his co-director, Hamdan Ballal, in March, he told reporters 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.”

Another co-director, Yuval Abraham, said he was “terrified for Basel.”

“What happened today in his village, we’ve seen this dynamic again and again, where the Israeli settlers brutally attack a Palestinian village and later on the army comes, and attacks the Palestinians.”