US ambassador calls on Israel to 'aggressively investigate' West Bank killing

Mike Huckabee calls for "accountability" after a young Palestinian-American was beaten to death in an attack by settlers.

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Sayfollah Musallet, known as Saif - a 20-year-old dual US citizen from Florida - was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the town of Sinjil on Friday evening, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

After an initially muted official US reaction to the killing, Huckabee - a longstanding supporter of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories - described it as a "criminal and terrorist act" on Tuesday.

"There must be accountability," he wrote in a post on X. "Saif was just 20 years old."

On Friday, the Israeli military said it was investigating, claiming that a "violent confrontation developed" after "terrorists" threw stones at Israeli civilians.