US Citizen Fatally Beaten Amid Clash Between Israelis and Palestinians in West Bank, Family Says

Twenty-year-old Sayafollah Musallet, a U.S. citizen, died amid a clash between Palestinians and Israelis in the contested West Bank on July 11.

Palestinian houses near an Israeli settlement in the background near Ramallah in the West Bank on Jan. 11, 2021. Mohamad Torokman/Reuters

A U.S. citizen was beaten to death on July 11 amid a conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank, according to a statement shared by his family.

Twenty-year-old Sayafollah Musallet, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent whose family lives in Florida, was in the town of Sinjil with his younger brother when a confrontation began on Friday evening.