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American activist shot dead by Israeli forces in Occupied West Bank

Friday, 06 September 2024 3:06 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 06 September 2024 4:52 PM ]

Medics rush a US citizen who received a gunshot wound in the head in Israeli attack to the emergency ward of a hospital in Nablus in the occupied West Bank on September 6, 2024. (By AFP)

Israeli occupation forces have shot dead an American activist of Turkish descent during a peaceful weekly anti-settlement march in the West Bank.

The 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was shot in the head in the town of Beita, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

According to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, Eygi was in the West Bank volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which works to support and protect Palestinian farmers from Israeli military and settler attacks.

Eygi is the third ISM volunteer killed by Israeli forces in Palestine, along with dozens of other foreign activists.

Israeli forces shot and killed a 26-year-old US activist of Turkish descent, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, during a protest in Beita, in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/ydgMsf30j6
— Palestine Highlights (@PalHighlight) September 6, 2024

The most famous case is Rachel Corrie, who was crushed under the tracks of an Israeli tank in Gaza’s Rafah region in 2003.

‘Attempt to silence pro-Palestine voices’

Hamas has condemned the murder, describing it as an example of constant attacks on foreign activists in Palestinian lands.

“These crimes continue in the West Bank with systematic and continuous attacks on solidarity activists by the occupation army and its settler gangs, as happens in all peaceful solidarity events and marches in the villages and towns of the West Bank threatened by settlement and Judaization projects,” the movement said in a statement.

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The statement said the regime seeks to terrorize and suppress every voice calling for the freedom of the Palestinian people or standing in solidarity with them in light of criminal settlement and Judaization projects and the genocide in Gaza.

Hamas called on the international community and the United Nations to act immediately to rein in the occupation regime and hold it accountable for its fascist behavior in violation of international laws.

The Hamas statement also slammed the widespread American military support for Israel, saying the bullets that killed the American activist were received from the US.

“We also call on the US administration to review its biased policy and support for the crimes and massacres of the occupation against our Palestinian people, which today led to the killing of an American citizen by the bullets of its criminal army.”

Turkey has also issued a statement condemning the murder of the young girl.

The statement said that it had learned "with great sorrow that our citizen named Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed by Israeli occupation soldiers in the city of Nablus".

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