Demand Justice for Saif Musallet

Tell Congress to Demand an Independent U.S. Investigation into the Killing of Saif Musallet

On July 11, 2025, a mob of Israeli settlers ambushed and lynched 20-year-old Palestinian American Saif Musallet on his family’s land in the town of Sinjil in the occupied West Bank.

Saif, a U.S. citizen and small business owner from Tampa, Florida, survived the initial attack and waited for medical help while Israeli soldiers blocked an ambulance from reaching him.

For 164 minutes, paramedics waited only minutes away.
Israeli soldiers blocked emergency medical care while Saif fought for his life.

This was a racially and politically motivated killing. Israeli settlers targeted Saif because he was Palestinian. Israeli soldiers then blocked the emergency medical care that could have saved his life.

Nearly a year later, there has been:

No independent investigation
No arrests
No prosecutions
No accountability
No justice

Call Congress Today
202-224-3121

Urge your Representative to sign onto Representative Kathy Castor’s letter demanding accountability for the killing of Saif Musallet and other U.S. citizens targeted in settler violence.

Representative Kathy Castor (FL-14) is circulating a congressional letter demanding accountability from Secretary of State Marco Rubio regarding the killing of U.S. citizens in the occupied West Bank.

The failure to investigate Saif’s killing has had deadly consequences. In the months after his murder, two more American citizens — Khamis al-Ayyada and Nasrallah Abu Siyam — were reportedly killed in similar settler attacks.

The U.S. government’s refusal to act has reinforced a system in which Palestinian Americans can be attacked and killed without consequence.

Saif’s killing is not an isolated tragedy. It is part of a broader pattern of violence against Palestinian Americans in the occupied West Bank and a system of impunity maintained by both Israeli authorities and U.S. political inaction.

The United States Has the Authority to Act

The United States has clear legal authority to investigate and prosecute crimes committed against American citizens abroad.

Existing treaties also allow the U.S. government to secure evidence and pursue accountability in coordination with Israeli authorities.

Yet despite public demands for accountability — including a letter from twenty-nine U.S. Senators led by Senator Chris Van Hollen — the U.S. government has still refused to launch an independent investigation.

In nearly every other case involving the killing of an American citizen abroad, U.S. officials publicly demand answers and pursue accountability.