UN calls for full inquiry into West Bank shooting

The United Nations has called for a “full investigation” into the death of a US-Turkish woman during a protest in the occupied West Bank on Friday.
According to local media, Israeli troops shot and killed Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, when she was participating in a weekly protest against Jewish settlement construction in Beita, near Nablus.

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Israel’s military stated it was “looking into reports that a foreign national was killed as a result of shots fired in the area”.
Ms Eygi’s family stated in a statement that they were shocked and saddened that the devoted and “fiercely passionate human rights activist” had died.

The family claimed that video footage revealed she was murdered by a gunshot fired by an Israeli military shooter and requested that the US conduct an investigation.
The United States has requested Israel to examine the event. Sean Savett, a spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council, stated that Washington was “deeply disturbed by the tragic death of an American citizen”.

“We have reached out to the government of Israel to ask for more information and request an investigation into the incident,” says Mr. Savett.

Ms Eygi’s family stated in a statement that, given the circumstances, an Israeli probe “is not adequate” and urged the US to launch an independent investigation and “ensure full accountability for the guilty parties”.

The UN secretary general’s spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, stated, “We would like to see a full investigation of the circumstances, and people should be held accountable.”
Civilians, he stressed, “must be protected at all times”.
Shortly after the incident, doctors hurry Ms Eygi into an ambulance.
Jonathan Pollak, a Jewish-Israeli activist who was present during the rally, told BBC World Service’s Newshour that he saw “soldiers on the rooftop aiming”.
He stated that he heard two distinct gunfire “with like a second or two distance between them”.
“I heard someone shout my name and say in English, ‘Help us. We need assistance. ‘We need aid. “I ran towards them,” he explained.

He claimed he then saw Ms Eygi “lying on the ground beneath an olive tree, bleeding to death from her head.”
“I put my hand behind her back to try and stop the bleeding,” he told me. “I looked up; there was a clear line of sight between the troops and our location. I took her pulse, and it was really feeble.
He noted that Friday’s rally was Ms Eygi’s first with the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian group.
The dual national was taken to a hospital in Nablus and eventually pronounced dead.
Dr. Fouad Nafaa, the administrator of Rafidia Hospital, where Ms. Eygi was hospitalized, acknowledged that a US citizen in her mid-20s died from a “gunshot in

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a statement stating that they replied with fire to a prominent initiator of violent activities in the Beita region, who hurled rocks at them.The IDF is investigating claims that a foreign national died as a consequence of bullets fired in the region. The event and the circumstances in which she was struck are being investigated.

In an interview with the BBC, Jonathan Pollak was asked about the IDF’s statement, in which the Israeli military stated that security personnel had responded to stone throwing.

Mr Pollak stated that there had been conflicts, but that soldiers were “under no threat”.

He stated that “no stone throwing” had occurred where she had been.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the “tragic loss,” while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the Israeli operation as “barbaric.”

Ms Eygi’s family said they were unable to accept the fact that she had died.
“Aysenur, like the olive tree beneath which she breathed her death, was powerful, beautiful, and nurturing. The Israeli military removed her from our life in an unnecessary, illegal, and brutal manner,” the family stated.
Their loved ones spoke to her as a “loving daughter, sister, partner, and aunt” who’d been “gentle, brave, silly, supportive, and a ray of sunshine” or “lived a life of caring for those in need with action” .

According to her family, she graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle three months ago with degrees in psychology and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. She participated in student-led rallies on school and felt driven to travel to the West Bank to “stand in solidarity with Palestinian civilians”.
Ana Mari Cauce, president of the University of Washington, called Ms Eygi’s death as “awful”, adding that the former student was a “positive influence” on other students.

Israeli soldiers withdrew from Jenin and its refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Friday, after a huge nine-day operation.
According to the Palestinian health ministry, at least 36 Palestinians were murdered at that time, 21 of them were from the Jenin governorate. The majority of the dead were claimed by armed groups as members, however the government reports that minors were also slain.
Over the last 50 years, Israel has established settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where over 700,000 Jews currently reside.
The UN Security Council and the UK government, among others, believe that settlements are illegal under international law, while Israel disagrees.