Family of American citizen killed by Israeli settlers demands US probe

Advocates accidental 20-year-old American national Sayfollah Musallet was ‘lynched’ portion US officials enactment silent.

Washington, DC – The household of Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old United States national from Florida who was beaten to decease by Israeli settlers successful the occupied West Bank, is calling connected Washington to motorboat its ain probe into the incidental and to clasp the perpetrators accountable.

Musallet’s household said successful a connection that Israeli settlers surrounded him for 3 hours during the battle connected Friday and attacked medics who were attempting to scope him.

The slain young man, known arsenic Saif, was a “kind, hard-working, and deeply-respected young man, moving to physique his dreams”, the household said.

“This is an unimaginable nightmare and injustice that nary household should ever person to face,” the connection added.

“We request the US State Department pb an contiguous probe and clasp the Israeli settlers who killed Saif accountable for their crimes. We request justice.”

Washington has antecedently resisted calls to analyse the sidesplitting of US citizens by Israeli forces. Instead, US officials accidental that Israel is susceptible of probing its ain abuses.

But Israeli investigations seldom pb to transgression charges against settlers oregon soldiers, contempt their well-documented violations against Palestinians.

The State Department said precocious connected Friday that it “has nary higher precedence than the information and information of US citizens overseas”.

“We are alert of reports of the decease of a US national successful the West Bank. When a US national dies overseas, we basal acceptable to supply consular services,” a section spokesperson told Al Jazeera, declining to supply further details, citing the privateness of the victim’s family.

Israeli settlers lynched 20-year-old Palestinian American Sayfollah Musallet, portion U.S. officials stayed silent.

Sayfollah was calved and raised successful Florida. He was visiting household for the summertime successful the West Bank erstwhile settlers bushed him to decease portion helium protested amerciable land… pic.twitter.com/W4zG8OFD9b

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Israeli forces person killed astatine slightest 9 US citizens since 2022, including seasoned Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh.

But nary of the incidents person resulted successful transgression charges.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said the US “must halt treating Palestinian American lives arsenic expendable”.

“Israeli settlers lynched 20-year-old Palestinian American Sayfollah Musallet, portion US officials stayed silent,” the advocacy radical said successful a statement.

“Sayfollah was calved and raised successful Florida. He was visiting household for the summertime successful the West Bank erstwhile settlers bushed him to decease portion helium protested amerciable onshore seizures.”

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) questioned whether Trump volition enactment existent to his pledge to prioritise US interests.

“Will helium uphold his ‘America First’ committedness erstwhile it’s a Palestinian-American whose beingness was taken? Or volition helium erstwhile again bow his caput to Israel, nary substance the outgo successful blood?” AMP said successful a statement.

But the radical stressed that US citizenship should not beryllium a information for justice. Another Palestinian was killed successful the aforesaid settler onslaught arsenic Musallet on Saturday.

“And let’s beryllium unequivocally clear: whether a Palestinian holds American citizenship oregon not, each azygous execution committed by this authorities indispensable beryllium explicitly prohibited, punished, and condemned,” AMP said.

The US provides billions of dollars successful subject assistance to Israel. It besides protects its state diplomatically astatine planetary forums, often using its veto power to artifact United Nations Security Council proposals captious of Israeli abuses.

The Council connected American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called connected supporters connected Saturday to interaction their lawmakers and impulse them to condemn the sidesplitting of Musallet.

“This was not an isolated incident. It was portion of a long, unpunished signifier of unit against US citizens by Israeli soldiers and settlers,” the radical said successful a statement.

Sarah Leah Whitson, the caput of rights radical DAWN, said the US has tools to prosecute accountability successful the Musallet case, noting that Washington is pursuing transgression charges against Hamas officials for the sidesplitting of US citizens during the October 7, 2023 onslaught successful Israel.

“What is truly missing [in the existent case] is the governmental volition from the United States authorities to protect American citizens of Palestinian root oregon Americans protesting Israeli actions successful the West Bank,” Whitson told Al Jazeera successful a TV interview.

“What it truly does is it sets a precedent of encouragement and sets a precedent for unfastened play connected Americans conscionable arsenic determination is unfastened play connected Palestinians.”