{"id":7678,"date":"2025-07-13T22:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7678\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T22:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:50:04","slug":"american-beaten-to-death-by-israeli-settlers-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7678\/","title":{"rendered":"American Beaten To Death By Israeli Settlers In West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli settlers beat a 20-year-old American to death while another man was fatally shot during a violent confrontation in the occupied West Bank on Friday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry<\/a> and his family.<\/p>\n

Sayfollah Musallet, a U.S. citizen from Tampa, Florida, was visiting relatives in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, when his family says a group of settlers assaulted him while attempting to seize the family\u2019s land.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a>, the family said Musallet was \u201cbrutally beaten.\u201d Medics were reportedly blocked from reaching him for more than three hours, until settlers finally cleared the area, allowing his younger brother to carry him to an ambulance. Musallet died before reaching the hospital.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military claims the violence broke out after Palestinians hurled rocks at Israelis and lightly wounded two people.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Musallet was laid to rest alongside friend Hussein Al-Shalabi, a 23-year-old Palestinian man who was shot in the chest and killed in the same violent incident.<\/p>\n

Musallet\u2019s family remembered him as \u201ca kind, hard-working, and deeply-respected young man\u201d who was known for \u201chis generosity, ambition, and connection to his Palestinian heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"OnOn Sunday, a large group of people attend the funeral of Sayfollah Musallet and Hussein Al-Shalabi, who were killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank on Friday.<\/p>\n

They called his death an \u201cunimaginable nightmare and an injustice that no family should ever have to face\u201d and urged the U.S. State Department to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the State Department told press outlets it was aware of reports a U.S. citizen had died in the West Bank but declined to comment further \u201cout of respect\u201d for the family.<\/p>\n

Musallet is one of several U.S. citizens who have been killed by Israeli military or settler violence in the occupied West Bank in recent years, including a 14-year-old American who was shot by Israeli soldiers<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations accused the U.S. government of \u201cshielding Israel from accountability\u201d in these cases. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis was not an isolated incident,\u201d the group said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cIt was part of a long, unpunished pattern of violence against U.S. citizens by Israeli soldiers and settlers.\u201d<\/p>\n

A United Nations report<\/a> released in March warned of a \u201cclimate of continuing impunity,\u201d which it said had fueled a sharp rise in state-sanctioned settler violence across the West Bank following Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli settlers beat a 20-year-old American to death while another man was fatally shot during a violent confrontation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,803,3,7854,21,19,22,20,25,24,7855],"class_list":{"0":"post-7678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-palestinians","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa","18":"tag-west-bank"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}