Saif Musallet was just weeks away from celebrating his 21st birthday, and as he visited his family in West Bank, Palestine, the Florida native’s thoughts began to turn toward marriage.
“I think it’s time for me to get married,” Musallet told his father, Kamel, during a phone call last week. “Hopefully while I’m here, I’m able to find a future spouse to get engaged to.”
That phone call would be Kamel’s last conversation with his son. Days later, Saif was beaten to death by Israeli settlers, according to his family and eyewitnesses.
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.
Their deaths mark the latest escalation in settler attacks in Sinjil, where Palestinian residents say settlers have encroached on their land over the last two months and terrorized Palestinians.
Musallet was among dozens of Palestinians who drove to Sinjil together after Friday prayers seeking to reach their land. They say they were attacked by settlers wielding rocks, clubs and guns.
Amid it all, a group of settlers came down on Musallet, beating him with sticks or clubs, eyewitnesses told CNN.
Musallet’s younger brother managed to reach him and called for help. He said Musallet was unconscious, but still breathing and needed an ambulance.
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.
“Nobody could get to him,” Musallet’s father, Kamel, said.
He now says he holds the Israeli military just as responsible for his son’s death as the settlers who beat him.
“They prevented the ambulance and allowed the settlers to do what they do anytime they want to,” Kamel Musallet said. “I hold the Israeli military just as responsible as the settlers and the American government for not doing anything about this. You know, why are you not telling the IDF? Why are you not preventing settler terrorism?”
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