The Trump administration demands that Israel will investigate the murder of American “terrorist” in the West Bank

The Israeli defense forces said on Friday that it was aware of information reporting a killed Palestinian civilian and a number of injured Palestinians and he said that the case was be examined by the Israeli authorities.

Police have told NBC News that several people from the “two sides” had been detained on the scene suspected of participation in acts of violence that an joint investigation was launched by Israeli police and FDI military police.

Asked an update on the investigation on Wednesday, the FDI repeated that an investigation had been launched by Israeli police and the division of criminal police investigations. Israel police did not respond immediately when they were asked for comments.

A spokesperson for the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

The murder of Musallet occurs in the middle of a deadly increase in the violence of the colonists against the Palestinians in the West Bank. A United Nations report in March warned that violence had “increased in a climate of continuous impunity”.

Hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers live in scanning colonies through the West Bank that the international community largely considers illegal.

More than 960 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Hamas conducted attacks on Israel since Gaza on October 7, 2023, according to a database maintained by the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA), marking a sharp increase compared to previous years.

During the year preceding Hamas attacks, just over 250 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank according to OCHA data.

The colonists are rarely confronted with legal consequences for violence against Palestinians, according to Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights group, with more than 93% of surveys between 2005 and 2023 closed without accusation and only 3% leading to a conviction, according to a report published last year.