According to the UN, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was killed by Israeli gunfire while taking part in a demonstration against Jewish settlements in Beita, near Nablus.
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The family of a Turkish-American activist fatally shot in the occupied West Bank during an anti-settlement protest accused the Israeli army on Saturday of killing her and demanded a pardon. “independent investigation”.
According to the UN, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was killed by Israeli gunfire while taking part in a demonstration against Jewish settlements in Beita, near Nablus in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
“His presence in our lives was brutally, unjustly and illegally taken away by the Israeli army.”the young woman’s family wrote in a statement. “Aysenur was peacefully defending justice when she was shot and killed”she added, referring to a video “showing that she [la balle] came from an Israeli army sniper”.
“We ask the president [Joe] Biden, to the vice president [Kamala] Harris and the Secretary of State [Antony] Blinken to order an independent investigation into the unjust killing of an American citizen and ensure that those responsible are fully held accountable.”
