Israel killed American citizen Aysenur Eygi, 26, on Friday while she was protesting against Jewish settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.
Warning: Graphic:
🇮🇱🇺🇸 The IDF just shot dead an American activist in the head in the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/WlCipgoEQd
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) September 6, 2024
Graphic video shared on X shows Eygi appears to have been shot with a bullet to the head.
From The Washington Post, “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.”
What are the odds this story will get even half as much coverage as the killing of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin?
🇺🇸🇵🇸 Rachel Corrie
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) November 10, 2023
Over 20 years ago, an Israeli bulldozer crushed Rachel Corrie to death.
Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American woman who spent her time advocating for the rights of Palestinians.
On March 16th 2003, Rachel stood in front of a Palestinian home in Rafah,… pic.twitter.com/CC79EUDYuj
We’ve seen in the past with Israel’s killing of Americans Rachel Corrie, Shireen Abu Aqla and others, the media couldn’t care less and our government will literally run cover for their killers.
The Israeli military just killed an American in the West Bank. Her name is Aysenur Eygi.
— Omar Baddar عمر بدّار (@OmarBaddar) September 6, 2024
Remember: when Hersh Goldberg-Polin was killed, Biden said "Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes."
We're about to get another demonstration of who can kill Americans with impunity. pic.twitter.com/k3dR8QCHiN
UPDATE: The US government on Friday said they’re “aware” of Egyi’s “tragic death” and offered their “deepest condolences” to her family, whereas the Turkish government condemned her “murder.”
Tragic: State Dept’s Matthew Miller says “We are aware of the tragic death of an American citizen, Aysenur Eygi, today in the West Bank. We offer our deepest condolences to her family and loved ones. We are urgently gathering more information about the circumstances of her death” https://t.co/At5oYKRyEf
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) September 6, 2024
Turkey is expressing far more anger about the alleged killing of a US-Turkish citizen by Israel than the US is. Turkey says “We condemn this murder committed by the Netanyahu government.” The US says “We are aware of the tragic death … We offer our deepest condolences” https://t.co/rrXlzAe55B
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) September 6, 2024
Israeli activist Jonathan Pollack, who was present at the scene, said her killing by Israel was “intentional” as “it was quiet” and “there was nothing to justify the shot.”
“The shot was taken to kill.”
Longtime Israeli activist Jonathan Pollack describes the “intentional killing” of American Aysenur Eygi in the West Bank:
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) September 6, 2024
“It was quiet. There was nothing to justify the shot. The shot was taken to kill.” pic.twitter.com/2eTOYDEqpI