US Citizen Shot Dead By Israeli Troops During West Bank Protest
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was shot in the head while protesting alongside Palestinians against Jewish settlement expansion and settler violence near Nablus
Israeli forces shot and killed a female international activist during an anti-occupation protest in the town of Beita near Nablus in the West Bank, WAFA news agency reported on 6 August.
Twenty-six-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a US citizen of Turkish descent, died on Friday after being shot in the head with live ammunition by Israeli forces in Beita, a town located south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
Eygi was participating alongside local Palestinians in the weekly protest against settlement expansion.
WAFA added that the activist was rushed to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus and placed in the intensive care unit in an effort to save her life.
“We tried to perform a resuscitation operation on her, but unfortunately she died,” Rafidia Hospital Director Fouad Nafaa told Reuters.
