|
2025-07-13 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
|
|
Two Palestinians, including US citizen, killed by settlers in West Bank attack — PA
|
[IsraelTimes] No immediate reports of arrests after incident in Sinjil; Palestinian Authority health ministry says the Palestinian-American dual national ‘died after being severely beaten’
Two Paleostinians were killed by Israeli settlers during an attack in the West Bank on Friday, according to the Paleostinian Authority’s health ministry, in an incident the military said was under investigation.
A front man for the PA’s health ministry, Annas Abu El Ezz, told AFP that 23-year-old Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat "died after being severely beaten all over his body by settlers in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, this afternoon." Paleostinian media said Musalat was a dual Paleostinian-American citizen.
The PA’s health ministry later said a second man, 23-year-old Mohammad Shalabi, was fatally shot by settlers. Both Shulabi and Musalat were identified as residents of the nearby town of al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya.
Paleostinian media reported another 10 people were maimed.
The IDF said it was aware of reports that Paleostinians had been killed and maimed, adding that the matter was being probed by police and the Shin Bet.
The military said the incident began after Paleostinians hurled stones at Israelis near Sinjil, lightly injuring two civilians.
The ensuing "violent mostly peaceful confrontation... included vandalism of Paleostinian property, arson, physical festivities and rock hurling," the IDF said.
Upon receiving reports of violence, the IDF said, troops and coppers were dispatched to the scene to "disperse the clash," during which forces used riot dispersal means. There have been no arrests yet.
Asked for comment, the US State Department said it was "aware of reports of the death of a US citizen in the West Bank."
"We won’t comment further out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones," said a State Department spokesperson.
According to Paleostinian accounts, settlers were the ones who instigated the clash when Paleostinians tried to protest the establishment of a new illegal outpost adjacent to Sinjil, one of dozens that have mushroomed across the West Bank with little to no enforcement by Israeli authorities.
A group of Paleostinians had been trying to reach the hamlet of Khirbet al-Tal to protest the outpost built on the village’s land, which is located in Area B of the West Bank, where no settlements are supposed to exist.
But dozens of settlers blocked Paleostinians from trying to reach Khirbet al-Tal and began attacking them, the PA’s official WAFA news site said.
Footage posted on social media shows several masked settlers arriving in a vehicle armed with sticks. Another clip shows masked settlers hurling stones at Paleostinians.
According to Paleostinian media, settlers smashed the windows of a Paleostinian ambulance that had arrived at the scene to evacuate maimed Paleostinians.
AFP footage from after the attack showed the body of Musalat, who the PA said had been beaten to death, being carried through the streets draped in a Paleostinian flag and flanked by around a hundred mourners.
"The young man was injured and remained so for four hours. The army prevented us from reaching him and did not allow us to take him away," said Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, from Musalat’s hometown of al-Mazraa al-Sharqiya. "When we finally managed to reach him, he was taking his last breath."
Dozens of Paleostinians and settlers also clashed in Sinjil last week, as Paleostinians were set to march there in protest of settler attacks on nearby farmland had been due to take place. Settlers accused Paleostinians, including a senior PA official, of vandalizing an outpost.
Israel, which controls the West Bank, recently erected a high fence cutting off parts of Sinjil from Road 60, which runs through the territory from north to south.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
footage from elsewhere in the West Bank on Friday purported to show Israeli troops blocking PA municipal workers from reaching a central West Bank water pipeline that settlers had allegedly dismantled to prevent water from reaching seven Paleostinian villages in the area.
While the troops in the video tell the Paleostinian workers that they may not proceed, bulldozers are seen operating freely, clearing ground for Israeli settlement expansion at a nearby hilltop.
The IDF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Violence in the West Bank has spiked following the Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
onslaught of October 7, 2023. Since then, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the territory, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the PA health ministry, more than 950 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or snuffies carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 53 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank. 
|
Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-13 2025-07-13 00:58||
E-Mail||
Front Page|| ||Comments
[58 views ]
Top
|
|
10:57 ed in texas
10:57 trailing wife
10:54 ed in texas
10:23 EMS Artifact
10:23 trailing wife
10:18 Shegum Whetle4937
10:14 Shegum Whetle4937
10:12 Shegum Whetle4937
09:51 Skidmark
09:41 Jeck Sproing1747
09:40 Skidmark
09:30 Skidmark
09:27 Skidmark
09:15 Skidmark
09:14 Skidmark
09:05 Skidmark
09:01 Skidmark
08:49 Skidmark
08:42 Skidmark
08:39 SteveS
08:32 Skidmark
08:26 Skidmark
08:25 Airandee
08:19 Skidmark
Merry-Go-Blog
|
