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7. 'Why are you not preventing settler terrorism': Palestinians call out IDF following beating death of American man
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 11:29 PM
Monday

By Jeremy Diamond and Kareem Khadder, CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/middleeast/palestinian-american-beaten-funeral-intl

"... Musallet was one of two men killed that day by settlers, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, while they were in the neighboring town of Sinjil, where their families own farmland.

Hundreds turned out on Sunday, braving the afternoon sun, for the funeral processions of the two men, carrying their bodies to their final resting place. Some mourners openly wept, burying their faces in the Palestinian flags wrapped around the bodies.

... But for at least two hours, no ambulance could reach him. Settlers were still roaming the area and had already shattered the windshield of an ambulance that day. On the other side, the Israeli military was firing tear gas to disperse the crowd of Palestinians and refusing to allow the ambulances to pass for hours.

By the time the ambulance reached Musallet, his face was blue, and he had stopped breathing..."


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