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BANK: FAMILY, HEALTH MINISTRY  
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Jessica Corbett
July 11, 2025
Common Dreams
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_ "If President Trump will not even put America first when Israel
murders American citizens, then this is truly an Israel First
administration," said one U.S. group. _

Sayfollah Musallat, a 23-year-old U.S.-Palestinian citizen, "died
after being severely beaten all over his body" by Israeli settlers in
the West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health., Photo: Courtesy
of family

 

The Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Health and cousins of
Sayfollah Musallat—also known as Saif al-Din Kamel Abdul Karim
Musallat—said Friday that Israeli settlers beat the dual
U.S.-Palestinian citizen to death while he was visiting family in the
illegally occupied West Bank.

A spokesperson for the ministry, Annas Abu El Ezz, told
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France-Press_ that 23-year-old Musallat "died after being severely
beaten all over his body by settlers in the town of Sinjil, north of
Ramallah, this afternoon."

Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, from the nearby village of Al-Mazraa
Al-Sharqiya, said that "the young man was injured and remained so for
four hours. The army prevented us from reaching him and did not allow
us to take him away."

"When we finally managed to reach him, he was taking his last breath,"
he added.

_The Times of Israel
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the "ministry later said a second man, 23-year-old Mohammad Shalabi,
was fatally shot by settlers," and "there have been no arrests yet."

The funeral of Saif al-Din Musallat, 23 years old, who was killed
after being brutally beaten by Israeli settlers in the town of Sinjil,
north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Nearly 50 Palestinians were injured in the attack.
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— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 11, 2025
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According to
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Tel Aviv-based newspaper _Haaretz_, "The Israeli army said it was
'aware of reports' of the incident and that it was 'being looked into
by the Shin Bet security service and Israel Police.'"

_Zeteo_'s Prem Thakker spoke with
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Musallat's cousins, Fatmah Muhammad and another granted anonymity due
to safety concerns. They said that he grew up in Port Charlotte,
Florida, and arrived in June to visit family in the Palestinian town
of al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya.

As Thakker detailed:

Muhammad described Musallat as "one of those kids that everyone loves"
with a "beautiful heart," a "sweet, gentle kid, very genuine,"
everyone attests as funny and bright.

In Florida, he helped run a family ice cream shop, a place where his
personality shone through, his family members said.

Muhammad and the other family source said that the entire Palestinian
town where the family is from is devastated.

"There's no justice there. You can't call the police. You can't call
the Israeli government. The murderers just get to walk away," Muhammad
said.

Since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack, the Israel Defense Forces
have killed
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57,800 Palestinians in the Gaza
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genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). During that
time, IDF soldiers and Israeli settlers' sometimes deadly violence
against Palestinians in the West Bank has also surged.

Additionally, despite the ICJ's July 2024 finding
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Israel's occupation of Palestine
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apartheid that must end as soon as possible, and Israeli settler
colonization of the West Bank amounts to unlawful annexation, there
are growing
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in Israel's government to formally annex the West Bank.

Musallat's death came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—a
fugitive from the International Criminal Court accused
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the mass slaughter and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza to stay in
power—returned to Israel after meeting with U.S. President Donald
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congressional leaders in Washington, D.C. this week.

An American citizen visiting a foreign country is beaten to death by a
gang of government backed thugs? I assume our government will get
right on this we'll put a boot in someone's ass.
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— Will 🦥 Menaker (@willmenaker) July 11, 2025
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Edward Ahmed Mitchell, national deputy director of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights and
advocacy group in the United States, said
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a Friday statement that "we strongly condemn these racist Israeli
settlers, backed and enabled by the Netanyahu government, for beating
an American citizen to death in the occupied West Bank."

"This murder is only the latest killing of an American citizen by
illegal Israeli settlers or soldiers," he noted. "Every other murder
of an American citizen has gone unpunished by the American government,
which is why the Israeli government keeps wantonly killing American
Palestinians and, of course, other Palestinians. If President Trump
will not even put America first when Israel murders American citizens,
then this is truly an Israel First administration."

According to Thakker: "Musallat is at least the seventh American
killed in the West Bank, Gaza, or Lebanon since October 7, 2023,
including six killed by Israeli forces. Earlier this
week, _Zeteo_ asked several Republican senators
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knew how many Americans had been killed by Israel in the last 21
months. None of them could answer."

_JESSICA CORBETT is a senior editor and staff writer for Common
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