Calls for justice grow after Israeli settlers kill another US citizen
Mourners carry the body of Nasrallah Muhammad Jamal Abu Siam, 19, who was killed by an Israeli settler, during his funeral in the town of Mukhmas, near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, 19 February 2026
Ali Harb reports in Al Jazeera on 25 February 2026:
After Israeli settlers killed 19-year-old United States citizen Nasrallah Abu Siyam in the occupied West Bank last week, the US Department orf State said it “has no higher priority than the safety and security of Americans”.
But, as the number of US citizens killed by Israel continues to mount, rights advocates say Washington’s failure to ensure accountability is driving a deadly cycle of impunity.
Abu Siyam, who was shot dead in the village of Mikhmas near Jerusalem, is among at least 11 US citizens killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers since 2022.
“It’s a joke. I don’t take these people seriously,” William Asfour, Chicago chapter coordinator for American Muslims for Palestine, said of the US government’s response to the latest killing. “If this is true, we would stop supplying Israel with weapons. We would hold these settlers, these terrorists, accountable. We would sanction them. We would have a weapons embargo.”
Last year, Asfour helped lead calls for an independent, US-led investigation into the July killing of Khamis Ayyad, a father of five from Chicago, in a settler attack in the West Bank. But the US Department of Justice has not opened a probe into Ayyad’s death, and no one in Israel has faced charges over the incident.
Similarly, there have been no charges for the killing of Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old Florida man who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers last year.