Overview

• Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen from Tampa, was visiting family in Sinjil when Israeli settlers fatally beat him and wounded multiple others, while another man, 23, was shot dead.
• Family members report that settlers blocked medics from reaching Musallet for three hours, and he died before reaching hospital care.
• The U.S. State Department has acknowledged reports of the death, and the Israel Defense Forces said it has opened a formal investigation of the Sinjil incident.
• Musallet’s family has demanded that the State Department lead an immediate inquiry and hold the settlers criminally accountable.
• Rights groups document a sharp rise in West Bank settler violence since October 2023 and cite low conviction rates for perpetrators, raising concerns about ongoing impunity.