[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 123 (Thursday, July 17, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H3469]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SAIF MUSALLET KILLING

  (Mr. TAKANO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my shock and outrage over 
the killing of Saif Musallet, a 20-year-old Palestinian American from 
Florida who was visiting his family in the West Bank.
  He was beaten on his own family's land by settlers. We have grown too 
used to this kind of violence. We have grown weary of news reports 
detailing the onslaught of deaths, but we should never accept the 
killing of innocence, let alone the killing of an innocent American 
citizen.
  In an unusual and forceful statement, Ambassador Huckabee called the 
killing a ``criminal and terrorist act'' and urged Israeli authorities 
to conduct a full investigation and bring those responsible to justice.
  I echo the call of the ambassador for an investigation and ask my 
colleagues to do the same. The United States Congress cannot allow 
silence to reign and complicity to creep in. Instead, we must demand 
justice.

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