Police Suspect Palestinian Murdered in Israeli Arab Town for Selling Land to Settlers

A Palestinian man was shot to death on Friday in the Israeli Arab town of Jaljulia, and police are looking into suspicion that he was murdered due to his occupation as a seller of land plots in the West Bank to Jewish settlers.

The man, who has been identified as Ahmed Salame, was a Palestinian hailing from the West Bank who married a Jaljulia resident. Anonymous perpetrators opened fire from a short range on the car he was driving.

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Salame was gravely injured in his upper body and was evacuated to the Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava, where he was pronounced dead.

In a video posted online by Salame prior to his death, he could be heard saying: "Residents of the West Bank, I swear to God that the Jews are better... to all those who stick to their nationalism, listen carefully- the State of Israel exists, you can do whatever you want but you can't change history.

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You can say I'm an agent or a collaborator... whoever owns land over the fence [in the West Bank] and isn't thinking of selling will experience the same thing that happened to [Palestinian] refugees who are still holding keys [for their old houses] and believe the UN and UNRWA. I'm willing to buy land by the fence anywhere."