Inhalation of Palestinian-American smoke in the West Bank after the settlers turned fires to cars, houses

A Palestinian American died at the West Bank occupied by Israeli last week after confrontation with the settlers, US officials confirmed.

Khamis Ayyad, who was 40 years old, died Thursday for smoke inhalation in Silwad, a village in the Bank center about several Israeli settlements, an American official told News themezone. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Friday that the fires were established by settlers in homes and vehicles in Silwad, according to the agency France-Presse.

A spokesman for the US Department of State.

“We offer condolences to the family for their loss and we are providing consular assistance,” said the spokesman, adding that they would not comment more.

Ayyad was buried on Friday.

The Palestinian authority, which manages part of the West Bank occupied by Israelis, told News that some villages around Silwad were also attacked by settlers, in which the vehicles, the houses and the cultivation lands were on fire.

The witnesses said that Israeli forces fired live rounds and tear gas towards residents after the settlers attacked.

Israel’s army said the police were investigating the incident. They said that the security forces found Hebrew graffiti and a burned vehicle on the scene, but had no suspect.

Ayyad is the last Palestinian American to die in the West Bank in three weeks.

Saifullah Kamel Musallet, a 20 -year -old man from Tampa, was hit until death by settlers While visiting the family in the West Bank in July. He was killed in a confrontation with settlers While protecting the land of his family in the city of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, according to his family and the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The United States ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who visited Gaza last week with the American envoy Steve Witkoff, has asked Israel to “aggressively investigate Musallet’s murder” of Musallet, saying in a publication on social networks that “there must be responsibility for this criminal and terrorist act.”

There has been an increase in the attacks of settlers against the Palestinians, as well as the Palestinian militant attacks against Israeli and large-scale Israeli military operations in the horn occupied since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 against Israel outside Gaza that caused the Israel-Ahamas war.

The terrorists led by Hamas killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, that day and kidnapped another 251. They still have 50 hostages, even around 20 that are still believed that they are alive. Most of the others have been released in cessation -fire or other agreements.

The retaliation offensive of Israel has killed more than 60,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between militants and civilians and operates under the government of Hamas. The UN and other international organizations see it as the most reliable data source about victims.

In Gaza on Sunday, at least 23 Palestinians who were looking for food were killed by the Israeli forces, according to officials and witnesses of the hospital, who described to face shots as hungry crowds emerged in the help sites.

Esperation has grabbed the Palestinian territory of more than 2 million, which experts have warned that the famine faces due to the blockade of Israel and almost two years of offensive.

Margaret Brennan contributed to this report.

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