09/06/2024

U.S. Woman Fatally Shot at West Bank Protest

Witnesses say IDF shot her

An American woman was killed Friday in the occupied West Bank, the State Department 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 against 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 Defense 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 toward a main instigator of violent activity who hurled rocks at the forces and posed a threat to them."

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