Overview

• The Israel Defense Forces have opened a probe into the Sinjil incident following reports that settlers beat 20-year-old U.S. citizen Sayfollah Musallet to death and shot Hussein Al-Shalabi.
• Sayfollah Musallet was visiting family in al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya when settlers surrounded him, delaying paramedics for three hours before he was carried to an ambulance and later died.
• Hussein Al-Shalabi, 23, was fatally shot during the same confrontation, and additional bystanders were reported wounded in clashes.
• The U.S. State Department has confirmed awareness of Musallet’s death and offered consular support while declining further public comment out of privacy concerns.
• Families and advocacy organizations are demanding legal accountability given rights groups’ findings that more than 90 percent of settler violence investigations close without indictments.