Palestinian-American Saif al-Din Abdul Karim Musalat's body -- draped in a flag and covered with a yellow and orange wreath -- was carried through the crowded streets of Al-Mazra'ah ash-Sharqiyah in the occupied West Bank on Sunday.

The village, perched atop limestone hills, is known for its colonnaded villas and manicured gardens -- and its few thousand residents who mostly come from the Palestinian diaspora in North America.

Musalat, 20, was one of them. Born and raised in Florida, he ran an ice cream parlour in Tampa, arriving in the Palestinian territory just a few weeks ago with a plan to spend the summer with his mother and siblings.

But on Friday, he was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in nearby Sinjil, the Palestinian health ministry said, in the latest violence to hit the village north of Ramallah.

Hundreds gathered on Sunday, chanting prayers and slogans at Musalat's funeral. Inside his family's upmarket home, women wept and screamed at the sight of the young man's lifeless body.

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