
Family of US citizen beaten to death by Israeli settlers calls on Trump administration to prosecute killers
Richard Luscombe in Miami
created: July 15, 2025, 9:44 p.m. | updated: July 16, 2025, 9:28 p.m.
Relatives of Sayfollah Musallet, a US citizen from Florida beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, are calling for the Trump administration to arrest and prosecute those responsible for his killing.
He decried what the family saw as indifference from the US government over the murder of one of its citizens.
Hasem Musallet said the settlers prevented ambulances from reaching the injured men, and that a brother watched Sayfollah take his last breath.
There’s a devastating pattern of Americans being killed in Israel, brutalized and murdered with impunity by Israeli forces and settlers.”Musallet’s death is part of a growing wave of violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the territory and injured at least 9,000 since the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023.
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