“Deeply disturbing”: Turkish-American woman “shot in the head” by Israeli forces

Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Turkish-American woman who was taking part in a protest against the expansion of settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Turkish officials said.

The White House expressed its deep sadness at the death of young graduate and activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi and called on Israel to investigate.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said she had been shot in the head and blamed the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Violence escalated in the occupied West Bank, leading to condemnation by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Source: AAP / Nasser Ishtaye

“I begged her not to go”

The Israeli military said its troops shot a male “main instigator” who posed a threat by throwing stones at the soldiers.

The military was investigating reports that a foreign national “was killed by gunfire from the area.”

“The details of the incident and the circumstances under which it was taken are currently under review,” it said.

Palestinian officials described her as a 26-year-old activist from Seattle who held dual American and Turkish citizenship.

“I begged her not to go (to the West Bank), but she was deeply convinced that she wanted to participate in the tradition of bearing witness to people's oppression and their dignified resilience,” Aria Fani, assistant professor of Middle Eastern languages and cultures at the University of Washington, told the Guardian.

There was no initial comment from Netanyahu's office on the incident.

Washington “deeply concerned”

Fouad Nafaa, head of Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, told Reuters that Eygi arrived in critical condition with a serious head injury.

“We tried to resuscitate her, but unfortunately she died,” he said.

The Palestinian Authority's official news agency WAFA said the incident occurred during a regular protest march by activists in Beita, a village near Nablus that has been subjected to repeated attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians.

Eygi's family described her as a “passionate human rights activist” who recently took part in protests on university campuses against US support for Israel's war in Gaza.

The statement called on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to launch an independent U.S. investigation into her killing.

White House National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett said Washington was “deeply disturbed by the tragic death of an American citizen” in the West Bank.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan condemned Eygi's death and said in a social media post that Turkey would “continue to work on all platforms to stop Israel's occupation and genocide policies.”

Israel denies that its actions in the occupied Palestinian territories amount to genocide.

Image of a woman wearing a headscarf covering her face with her hand, others in the background.

Rashid Mahmoud Abdul Qader Sada, 23, was shot dead during a settler attack in Jit, a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied West Bank, amid an escalation in Israeli violence. Source: AAP / Brendan Rains

Settler violence elsewhere

In another incident on Friday near Beita in the village of Qaryut, a 13-year-old girl was killed by Israeli gunfire, Palestinian health officials said, after settlers attacked the village.

WAFA quoted the girl's father as saying that she was in her house when it was hit by gunfire.

The Israeli military said it had launched an investigation after its troops fired from the air to break up violent clashes between dozens of settlers and Palestinians in the area.

An increase in violent attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has sparked anger among Israel's Western allies, including the United States, which has imposed sanctions on some Israelis involved in the settler movement.

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