We go to the occupied West Bank for an update on how the family of a 20-year-old Palestinian American from Florida, Sayfollah “Saif” Musallet, is demanding justice after he was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. Musallet and another Palestinian, 23-year-old Mohammad al-Shalabi, were attacked by a group of Israeli settlers on Friday in the town of Sinjil, northeast of Ramallah, where their families own farmland. Eyewitnesses say the settlers brutally beat Musallet and fatally shot al-Shalabi, then prevented ambulances from reaching their victims for hours. Musallet was pronounced dead before he could reach a hospital.
“The settlers and the military don’t only work hand in hand,” says anti-Zionist activist Jonathan Pollak, who was injured in the same protest. “They are part and parcel of implementing the same policy … of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.”
“Palestinians here have zero rights,” adds Nizar Milbes, a distant relative and close friend of the Musallet family, who says settlers have been encroaching on Palestinian lands even more aggressively since October 7, 2023.
This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.