How Israel Gets AWAY With Killing Americans

Five US families made a historic visit to DC to demand justice for their young loved ones who have been victims of Israeli violence. Prem Thakker sat down with the relatives of three of those US citizens on Capitol Hill.

“Has there even been a true investigation? I haven’t seen nothing, nothing at all,” Kamel Musallet says, whose 20-year-old son Sayfollah was killed by Israeli settlers while visiting Palestine from Florida in July.

Prem also spoke to Zeyad Kadur, whose 16-year-old nephew, Mohammed Ibrahim, was abducted by Israeli soldiers in the middle of the night in February and has remained in Israeli detention since. “An innocent minor in prison, [who] has no court dates.”

These stories have a decades-old precedent. In 2003, an Israeli soldier crushed Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old peace activist from Washington, to death with a bulldozer, as she protected a Palestinian family’s home from demolition. Her mother, Cindy Corrie, told Prem that even decades later, there has “not been a thorough, credible, and transparent investigation” into Rachel’s killing.