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Arab News
13-07-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
US-Palestinian man beaten to death by Israeli settlers buried in West Bank village
LONDON: The body of a US-Palestinian man, who was beaten to death by Israeli extremist settlers on Friday evening, was buried in his family's village of Al-Mazraa Al-Sharqiya in the occupied West Bank on Sunday afternoon. Hundreds of Palestinians participated in the funeral of Saif Al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat, 20, and Mohammed Rizq Hussein Al-Shalabi, 23, whose coffins were wrapped in Palestinian flags during the procession in Al-Mazraa Al-Sharqiya on Sunday. Al-Shalabi was shot by settlers on Friday and left to bleed for hours in Sinjil, a village near Ramallah. The family of Musalat, who was born and based in Florida, is demanding that the US administration launch an investigation into his death. Musalat had been visiting the West Bank from the US since last June to spend time with relatives, according to a statement from his family and lawyer. He was beaten to death by settlers in Sinjil and his body was discovered on Friday evening. Since October 2023, Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank have killed at least 955 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. About 1 million Israeli settlers live in illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law. Their attacks against Palestinians have escalated since 2023, with 820 attacks recorded by rights groups in the first half of 2025. In June, the UK, Australia, and Canada sanctioned two Israeli far-right ministers for inciting settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
CBS News
13-07-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Funeral held for Palestinian-American killed in West Bank as Gaza ceasefire talks drag on
A funeral was held Sunday for a Palestinian-American and his friend who were killed in the Israel-occupied West Bank. Saifullah Kamel Musallet, 20, a Tampa, Florida native, was killed in a confrontation with settlers while protecting his family's land in the town of Singjil, north of Ramallah, according to his family and the Palestinian Health Ministry. His family told CBS News he was meant to be headed back to Florida this week after visiting family. Musallet's friend, Mohammed al-Shalabi, was shot in the chest, according to the health ministry. On Sunday, their bodies were carried through the streets of Al-Mazraa a- Sharqiya, a town south of where they were killed. Mourners, waving Palestinian flags, chanted "God is great." People carry the bodies of Sayfollah Kamel Musallet and Mohammad Al-Shalabi. Ammar Awad / REUTERS "He worked at his family's ice cream shop in Tampa and was loved by so many people there. He was always kind and compassionate," Musallet's cousin Fatmah Muhammad, who is a business owner in Southern California, told CBS News on Saturday. The U.S. State Department spokesperson confirmed Saturday to CBS News that a U.S. citizen died in the West Bank on Friday but referred questions about any investigation into the incident to Israel's government. Musallet's family, meanwhile, said it wants the U.S. to investigate. "We demand the U.S. State Department lead an immediate investigation and hold the Israeli settlers who killed Saif accountable for their crimes," the family's statement read. Saifullah Kamel Musallet, a Palestinian-American from Tampa, was killed in a confrontation with Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Courtesy from the Musallet Family Israel's military has said Palestinians hurled rocks at Israelis in the area on Friday, lightly wounding two people and setting off a larger confrontation. Violence in the West Bank is on the rise, with Israeli settlers expanding their efforts to occupy land in the contested region. Palestinians and rights groups have long accused the military of ignoring settler violence. Musallet is the fifth American to be killed in the West Bank since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, 2023. Gaza ceasefire talks drag on Meanwhile, Israel and Hamas appeared no closer to a breakthrough in talks meant to pause the 21-month war and free some Israeli hostages. The indirect talks over a U.S. proposal for a 60-day ceasefire began a week ago in Doha, Qatar. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington last week to discuss the deal with the Trump administration but a new sticking point has emerged over the deployment of Israeli troops during the truce, raising questions over the feasibility of a new deal, the Associated Press reported. Israel wants to keep forces in what it says is an important land corridor in southern Gaza. Hamas views the insistence on troops in that strip of land as an indication that Israel intends to continue the war once a temporary ceasefire expires. In a statement Sunday, Netanyahu's office slammed Hamas for refusing to accept the framework of the most recent proposal, saying the terrorist group is "making unreasonable demands." Israeli troops deploy by Israel's border fence with the Gaza Strip on July 10, 2025, amid the ongoing war with the Palestinian militant movement Hamas. JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images Israel says it will only end the war once Hamas surrenders, disarms and goes into exile, something it refuses to do. Hamas says it is willing to free all the remaining 50 hostages, less than half said to be alive, in exchange for an end to the war and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces. The 21-month war was sparked when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and abducting 251. Many of those hostages have since either been released or their bodies have been recovered in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed more than 58,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry. The ministry doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count. The United Nations and other international organizations see the Health Ministry's figures as the most reliable statistics on war casualties. contributed to this report.
