The Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi26, died this Friday after being shot by the Israeli army, causing serious head injuries. Nablussouth of West Bank occupied, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The activist took part in the weekly march peaceful detained in the village of Beta in Nablus against settlement expansion when Israeli forces They repressed the demonstration with live ammunitiongrenades and tear gas.
“This weekly march is always met with live fire because there is no legal way for Palestinians to protest under Israeli military rule in the West Bank,” wrote Alon Lee Green, an Israeli activist and co-director of the peaceful movement “Standing Together,” on his X account.
A Palestinian from 18 years old He was also injured by shrapnel during the incident, according to Wafa.
Ezgi Eygi was rushed to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus where she was admitted to the intensive care unit. Medical efforts failed to save her due to the serious injuries she sustained to her head, medical sources said.
The young woman works as a volunteer in the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in a campaign to protect Palestinian farmers from Israeli settlers.
The Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hussein Sheikh, condemned “the murder of the activist” and defined it as “another crime committed in a series of daily violations committed by the occupying forces.”
In a message on his X account, he demanded that those responsible for the death of Ezgi Eygi accountable before international courts.
The Israeli Army has intensified its usual incursions In these occupied Palestinian territories after the outbreak of the war in Gaza and so far in 2024, more than 330 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, mostly militiamen or attackers but also civilians, including about fifty minors – according to the count of the Israeli army. Efe Agency -, after closing 2023 as the deadliest year in two decades with more than 520 deaths.
Israeli troops withdrew from the refugee camp and city of Jenin in the northern West Bank on Friday, after ten days of raid in which it is already considered one of the most violent offensives of recent decades and which also affected the cities of Tubas and Tulkarem, causing more than thirty deaths, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
