He Army Israeli acknowledged on Tuesday that its forces “most likely” “unintentionally” killed the Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi during a protest near the town of Nablusin West Bank busy.
After conducting an investigation into the facts, the Army He assured that “It is highly probable that she was accidentally hit by Israeli fire that was not directed at her”but against an alleged instigator in a demonstration that he described as “riot”.
On September 6, 2024, medics bring a US citizen who reportedly received a gunshot wound to the head to the emergency room of a hospital in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. (Photo by AFP)
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Israel He did not give further details about who was the target of his attack, which occurred during a weekly march organized by the International Solidarity Movementl (ISMin English) against the expansion of Jewish settlements in West Bank which, according to witnesses, passed off peacefully.
On Saturday, the governor of Nablus, Ghassan Daghlassaid that the autopsy performed on the activist confirmed that she died from a shot to the head fired by an Israeli soldier.
Israeli authorities today requested that their own autopsy be carried out on the young woman’s body. “The Army expresses its most sincere regret for the death of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi”, they riveted their forces.
Jonathan Pollaka veteran Israeli activist who participated in the protest in which the young woman died, told EFE today that the soldiers remained stationed on a hill more than 200 meters from the protesters, from where they had “a clear line of sight” what they were shooting at.
“We know that these investigations are a mechanism to ensure the impunity (of Israeli forces)”, the activist said about the investigations announced by the Army following the incident.
Already on the same day of the incident, the military said that they had open fire to mitigate the threat of “an instigator“who was throwing stones at the soldiers, something that witnesses refuted.
Hundreds of people yesterday participated in a funeral march for the activist in Nablus. With his body wrapped in a Palestinian flag and his face surrounded by a kufiyaThe 26-year-old activist was carried onto a stretcher, first by honor guards in green uniforms and then by her closest friends.
