The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / Washington Post | Kareem Fahim | 8 September 2024
Another one!!!!!!!! Mark
An American woman has been killed in the occupied West Bank, the US State Department has said.
Two witnesses said the woman was shot in the head by Israeli forces who had opened fire.
The woman, Aysenur Eygi, a 26-year-old volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian activist group, had been attending a protest of Jewish settlement expansion in the town of Beita when she was shot, her colleagues said. Copies of her passport that circulated online said she was born in Turkey, and the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement that she was a citizen.
The Israel Defence Forces said it was ‘‘looking into reports that a foreign national was killed as a result of shots fired in the area’’. The statement said that Israeli forces in the area of Beita, in the northern West Bank, ‘‘responded with fire towards a main instigator of violent activity who hurled rocks at the forces and posed a threat to them’’.
Jonathan Pollak, a volunteer with ISM, said the shooting took place about 30 minutes after protesters had dispersed, at a time when there were no active clashes taking place, and as foreign volunteers, including Eygi, stood observing at a distance of about 200 metres from the Israeli military.
‘‘There was no justification for taking that shot,’’ he said.
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