House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued a statement today blasting last week’s “shocking and appalling” killing of Palestinian-American Saif Musalat, who was allegedly beaten to death by Israeli settlers. Jeffries calls on the Israeli government to investigate the killing, adding that “the rise in violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank directed at Palestinian civilians is completely and totally unacceptable. The Trump Administration cannot continue to turn a blind eye to what is happening in the West Bank if it is truly committed to finding a just and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinian people.”
Also today, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (MI), posted on the brutal killing, along with Israel’s legal responsibility to deliver aid to Gaza safely. “Another violent week in the Middle East: in Gaza, this weekend brought the death of another 60 Palestinians who were simply seeking food and water for their families. Israel has the responsibility to allow humanitarian aid in—just as the U.S. had the responsibility to allow aid into places like Fallujah. And if President Trump’s hand-picked aid organization can’t get food and medicine to people in Gaza a safe way, Israel has the responsibility to find one that can.”
