Kamel Musallet was at home in Florida, United States, when he last spoke to his son Sayfollah (Saif), who was visiting their ancestral hometown of al-Mazaraa ash-Sharqiyah (Mazraa) in the occupied West Bank.
Saif, 20, was in high spirits, telling Kamel he might have found the woman he wanted to marry and talking about how to start the arrangements.
Four days later, Kamel woke up the morning of July 11 to a call from his younger son, Muhammad, 18, telling him that settlers had attacked Saif.
At the time, Saif was lying on the ground near an oak tree where he had hidden to get away from rampaging settlers; he was unconscious and having trouble breathing.
By the time Saif had been carried to an ambulance, he was dead.
Saif’s friend, 23-year-old Muhammad “Rizik” al-Shalabi from Mazraa, was found later in the night – shot, beaten, tortured and left to die of his wounds.
Al Jazeera spoke with witnesses, victims, town officials, first aid responders, and search and rescue volunteers.
This is the story of how Saif and Rizik were lynched by a mob of Israeli settlers.
Hellbound and Down 