AFPAccording to the Palestinian Health Ministry, two Palestinians have been killed in an attack by Israeli settling in a city north of the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli army said that stones were thrown in Israel near Sinjil and “a violent conflict had developed in the area”.
It states that the security forces were looking at the reports of one Palestinian killing, and the incident that included the other was being reviewed.
There has been an increase in violence in the West Bank since the Hamas attack on Southern Israel on 7 October 2023, which started a war in Gaza.
The United Nations states that at least 910 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces at West Bank, 13 by Israeli settles, and one and seven by Israeli forces or settled. At least 44 Israel have also been killed in Palestinian attacks in Israel and West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry said that 23 -year -old Dual American citizen Saifullah Musslet of Florida was badly beaten up during the incident on Friday evening during the incident.
Another person, Mohammad al-Shalabi, also 23, died after being shot in the chest, the couple.
The US State Department stated that it was “aware of the report of the death of an American citizen at the West Bank”, and that “out of respect for family privacy” was no more comment “.
Saefullah Musslet, a businessman, who was Nickname Saif, traveled from his home in Tampa to West Bank on 4 June.
A statement said that he was brutally beaten to death by Israeli settlers, while he was protecting his family’s land from those who were trying to steal it “.
“Israeli settlers surrounded Saif for more than three hours as paramedics tried to reach him, but a crowd of settlers stopped ambulances and paramedics from providing life saving assistance.”
“After approving the crowd of Israeli settlers, Saif’s younger brother ran to take his brother to an ambulance. Saif died before going to the hospital.”
The statement said: “We demand that the US State Department led the immediate investigation and caught Israeli settlers, who held SAIF accountable for their crimes.”
Official Palestinian news agency Wafa said that Mohammad al-Shalabi was from the city of Al-Mazra al-Shakia to Sinjil.
It quoted the Palestinian Health Ministry, saying that he was shot in the chest by the settlers, during the same attack in which Sayfullah Musslet was killed.
When he was able to reach paramedics, he was bleeding for hours.
Wafa reported another 10 Palestinians in Sinjil and was injured in clashes with people equipped with automatic rifles.
The Israeli army said in a statement on Friday night that “militants provoked rocks on Israeli citizens adjacent to Sinjil, injuring two of them lightly.
“A violent conflict developed in the area involving Palestinians and Israeli citizens, including Palestinian property, arson, physical clashes, and brutality of rock hurling.”
The army said that soldiers, police and paramilitary border police forces were sent to the area and “used riot spread in response to violent confrontation”.
It stated that it was “aware of the reports about a Palestinian citizen and several injured Palestinians as a result of” confrontation “, and was seen by Shin Bet Security Service and Israel Police.
When the BBC was asked to respond to those reports on Saturday that a second Palestinian was killed, the army said: “The situation is being reviewed”.
Separately, the US embassy in Jerusalem has said that it condemns recent violence by Israeli settlers against the Christian city of Tayabeh in West Bank.
Most of the land there is owned by Palestinian-Americans and according to local people, some 300 residents are American passport holders.
Masked men have been ramp in attacks, including attacking cars and houses. On Monday, Setlers set the fields close to the fifth -century church, leading to a call from the city priests for international action.
The State Department said that in response, American citizens did not have more priority than the safety and safety of American citizens abroad and protecting Christians was a priority for President Donald Trump.
Israel has built around 160 settlements, which have been built by some 700,000 Jews’ houses since the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem – Land Palestinians, with Gaza, for the future state for an expectation – during the Middle East War of 1967. The estimated 3.3 million Palestinians live with them.
Settlements are considered illegal under international law – a status supported by a advisory opinion of the International Court of Court (ICJ) last year – although Israel disputed it.
During the same period, there has been a sharp increase in the number and severity of attacks in the West Bank. The United Nations says that there were 136 attacks by the settlers, resulting in casualties or property damage in May alone.
On Thursday, a 22 -year -old Israeli security guard Shaalev Zwuluni was shot and killed when two Palestinians set fire to a shopping center in the Gush Atzian Settlement Block in the south of the West Bank.
Police said the attackers were shot by soldiers and armed citizens present at the scene.
Tom Betman contributed to this report
