Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out numerous attacks on Friday against Palestinians, their homes, and their lands across several areas of the occupied West Bank. Two Palestinians, including a Palestinian-American, were killed, many others were wounded, and several properties sustained damage in Sinjil town, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Israeli soldiers also abducted a child and a young man in Salfit, in the central West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the young man, a Palestinian-American identified as Saifuddin Kamil Abdul-Karim Musallet, 23, was killed after being brutally assaulted by Israeli colonizers in the town of Sinjil, northeast of Ramallah.
Musallet had travelled to Al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya to spend time with his extended family. According to his cousin Fatima Mohammad and another relative who spoke anonymously due to safety concerns, he arrived in June. Though born in Florida, Musallet was raised in Port Charlotte, where he spent his early years.
Saifuddin Kamil Abdul-Karim Musallet
Fatima, currently outside of Palestine but in close communication since the attack, recounted that when armed colonizers approached, Musallet and others attempted to get help. but access was obstructed. Even after emergency responders arrived, the colonizers held up the ambulance for nearly two hours.
Friends and loved ones described Musallet as “one of those kids everyone loves”—a young man with a generous heart, gentle spirit, and unmistakable warmth. He was known for his sincerity, kindness, and quick sense of humor.
In Florida, he helped run the family’s ice cream shop, a place where his charisma and compassion made a lasting impression on everyone who walked through the door.
In a separate but related incident, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that another young man, Mohammad Rezeq Hussein Shalabi, was fatally shot by Israeli colonizer in Sinjil.
Officials stated that al-Shalabi was left to bleed for several hours before help arrived, as the Palestinians initially could not locate him.
In Khirbet Al-Tell, located on Jabal Al-Baten, south of Sinjil in the Ramallah and Al-Biereh Governorate in the central West Bank, ten Palestinian civilians sustained wounds and fractures after colonizers assaulted residents attempting to access the area alongside international solidarity activists.
Local nonviolent activist, Ayed Ghafri stated that the victims of the attack came from the villages and towns of Sinjil, Al-Mazra’a Al-Sharqiya, Abwein, and Jaljulia.
The Palestinians were trying to prevent the colonizers from establishing a new illegal outpost on stolen Palestinian land.
Ghafri confirmed that one activist was deliberately run over by a colonizer, and two ambulances were also targeted and damaged, including shattered windows.
The ARAB 48 news website reported, on Friday evening that at least 40 Palestinians sustained injuries during the colonizer attack in Sinjil.
Meanwhile, many Palestinian civilians, including children, were injured following violent assaults carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces near the village of Al-Minya, southeast of Bethlehem.
Zayed Kawazba, head of the Al-Minya Village Council, stated that the colonizers stormed the Wadi Sa’ir area and hurled stones at approximately ten homes, shattering windows and instilling fear among residents.
Several civilians also suffered from tear gas inhalation after Israeli soldiers fired toxic gas grenades toward the homes and locals who attempted to defend them.
The Palestinian Red Crescent treated a three-year-old girl who sustained a head injury during the assault near Al-Minya.
In the northern Jordan Valley, colonizers vandalized a water tank belonging to citizen Radhi Khalil Zawahra from the Al-Burj community. The water tank was destroyed amid continued and repeated attacks targeting residents and their property in the region.
Two civilians were also injured in the village of Susiya, in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, when colonizers launched yet another assault on Palestinian homes.
Jihad Al-Nawaj’a, head of the Village Council, reported that colonizers attacked residents with physical violence and stones, resulting in injuries that required hospitalization at Yatta Government Hospital.
Such assaults continue unabated across villages and communities in Masafer Yatta, routinely facilitated by occupation forces.
In Beit Kahil, northwest of Hebron, colonizers invaded the home and farmland of citizen Nadi Al-Atawna in the Shu’ab Mazzo area.
They vandalized the home and uprooted trees from his land, marking the third documented attack on Al-Atawna’s property.
According to the Wall and Colonization Resistance Commission, Israeli forces and colonizers have carried out over 11,280 documented violations in the first half of this year.
These include land seizures, tree uprooting, summary executions, and movement restrictions. The escalation coincides with the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7, 2023.
In related news, Israeli soldiers invaded Qarawat Bani Hassan town, west of Salfit in the central West Bank, stormed and ransacked homes before abducting a child, Elias Abdullah Rayyan, 10, and a young man Eyad Ezzat ‘Aasi, while standing in front of their homes, before taking them to an unknown destination.
On Thursday evening, two Palestinian young men were killed after an alleged stabbing attack which killed an illegal Israeli colonizer near the Gush Etzion colonial bloc, south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that it was informed by the General Authority of Civil Affairs, that the two young men, Mahmoud Yousef Mohammad Abed, 23, and Malek Ismail Abdul Jabbar Salem, 23, were killed south of Bethlehem, adding that the army confiscated their bodies.
Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces and colonizers have killed 177 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 31 children and 6 women, and four killed by the illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers.
60 Palestinians were killed in Jenin, 32 in Nablus, 26 in Tubas, 17 in Tulkarem, 12 in Hebron, 11 in Ramallah, 6 in Bethlehem, 5 in Jerusalem, 4 in Qalqilia, 3 in Salfit, and 1 in Jericho.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory.”
Early Friday morning, at least 30 Palestinian families were forcibly displaced from the Arab al-Mleihat Bedouin community, situated at the end of the Mu’arrajat road northwest of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
