Father's Journey to Site of Son's Death

This is something worth watching.

So what you're about to see is video of the father accompanied by a

news

crew attempting to go to the place where his son was beaten to death

during these pogroms. Watch.

Kamal Muslat hasn't been able to reach this land in over a

year. This is the hillside where his son, Saif, an

American citizen, was killed.

Looks like it's down here, if you wanna walk.

Yeah.

Yep.

Beaten to death by Israeli settlers exactly one year

ago. Since then, settlers have illegally

occupied the area, preventing this father from getting the

closure he so desperately seeks.

We have to keep an eye, because usually they'll come down

that way.

Yeah.

But this solemn, sacred moment won't last.

Within seconds, we spot a car speeding towards us.

We start to leave, but as we drive away, we see that four settlers have set up a

roadblock. Armed with clubs and rocks, they try and block our

way. First with their bodies,

and then... And now it looks like he's trying to slash

our tires.

He's trying to slash our tires.

Oh, he's got a knife. He's going for the tires.

Oh. Oh my God.

A group of independent journalists and activists are in the car behind

us.

Move. Move, move.

Get the-

But their vehicle isn't armored.

Move. Drive, drive, drive, drive, drive. Move. Go, go.

But the settlers aren't done. More arrive, blocking another road

before chasing us

and attacking us again.

No, they're trying to stop our car again.

They're hitting us.

We finally make it back to safety, where I get on the phone with the Israeli

military, which is responsible for security in this

area.

But settlers have also called the military, and these soldiers

are only interested in harassing us, refusing to take

action against the settlers.

You think, "Well, that couldn't possibly happen now." Well,

in fact, it is

happening now. Right now, more than a dozen American

citizens have been murdered in pogroms in the occupied

territories that Israel controls, the West Bank, and they've been murdered

by Israelis, mostly Israeli settlers, the ones conducting these

pogroms, armed by the US government, carrying American

rifles.

And if you think the term pogrom is too strong,

you don't know the details of

what's happening there.

Israeli settlers, many of them American citizens, carrying

American weapons, murdering

the local population,

Palestinians, some of whom, more than a dozen of whom,

have been American.

And by the way, who are prohibited from defending themselves.

They cannot carry weapons, of course.

Palestinians can't carry weapons

on their own land, but Israeli settlers who seek to steal

that

land can. So this is, these pogroms have been ongoing,

of course, but most

Americans have no idea that American citizens have been

murdered during the course of them.

And they have no idea because the media by and large don't report it, and American

officials have no interest in talking about it