Basel Adra speaks during an event in Madrid, Spain on June 23. Alejandro Martinez Velez/Europa Press/Getty Images

Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker and activist Basel Adra said soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) searched his house in the occupied West Bank after a group of Israeli settlers attacked him, his family members and a foreign activist on Saturday.

On Saturday afternoon, a group of settlers from the illegal Havat Ma’on outpost near Adra’s village of At-Tuwani began trespassing in his olive grove, Adra told CNN.

When Adra, two of his brothers, his cousin and a foreign activist attempted to confront the settlers, they were attacked, Adra said.

“The police, the army came when the settlers were attacking us,” Adra said. “They did not stop them. One of the settle

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