By Global News Service
26-year-old U.S. activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi succumbed to her wounds on Friday, September 6 after being shot by Israeli forces at a protest in Beita, to the south of Nablus. Headlines from Western mainstream media sources have already attempted to obscure who killed the solidarity activist, with CNN stating, “American activist shot dead during protest in West Bank, Palestinian officials say,” CBS News writing, “American woman Aysenur Eygi killed in Israeli-occupied West Bank, U.S. confirms,” and BBC writing, “American activist shot dead in occupied West Bank.”
The shooting occurred while Israeli forces were violently suppressing a weekly protest against an Israeli settlement. Israeli forces employed live ammunition, stun grenades, and tear gas. The Israeli attack also resulted in the injury of an 18-year-old Palestinian man via shrapnel.
Eygi was reportedly part of the Faz3a campaign, which aims to mobilize international solidarity activists on the ground in Palestine to protect Palestinian farmers from Israeli settlers and military forces. Eygi was also an activist with the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led organization committed to resisting the occupation.
ISM released a statement condemning Eygi’s killing. ISM volunteer Mariam Dag (a pseudonym) witnessed the shooting. She said, “We were peacefully demonstrating alongside Palestinians against the colonization of their land, and the illegal settlement of Evyatar… Our fellow volunteer was standing a bit further back, near an olive tree with some other activists. Despite this, the army intentionally shot her in the head.”
from the Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service
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