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U.N. Calls for Full Investigation into Death of U.S. Citizen in West Bank

U.N. Calls for Full Investigation into Death of U.S. Citizen in West Bank

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Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old Turkish-American activist, was shot and killed by Israeli forces during a protest in Beita, a village in the occupied West Bank. The circumstances of her death are disputed, with some sources attributing it to a stray bullet and others claiming she was intentionally targeted by an Israeli sniper. The Israeli military stated that its forces responded with fire towards a main instigator of violent activity, but witnesses and Palestinian officials said Israeli soldiers had fired the shots that killed her. The incident has sparked international condemnation and calls for an investigation, with the United States condemning the killing and attributing it to "Israeli occupation soldiers". The Turkish Foreign Ministry confirmed that Eygi was a citizen and had been protesting settlement expansion in the West Bank.

Stephane Dujarric
United Nations
1. We would want to see a full investigation of the circumstances and that people should be held accountable.
Israel Defense Forces
1. The forces responded with fire toward a main instigator of violent activity who hurled rocks at the forces and posed a threat to them.
Hussein Al-Sheikh
Palestine Liberation Organization
1. Another crime added to the series of crimes committed daily by the occupation forces.
William Burns
Central Intelligence Agency
1. They said that the stones posed a threat to the soldiers. They were stones thrown by kids from all the way down there, yet they talk about it like it was a Yassin [rocket propelled grenade].
Anthony Blinken
White House
1. I just want to extend my deepest condolences, the condolences of the United States government, to the family of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. We deplore this tragic loss.
Karine Jean-Pierre
White House
1. We are deeply disturbed by the tragic death of an American citizen.
Sultan Barakat
Hamad Bin Khalifa University
1. If they leave [an inquiry] to the Israeli military, it will go on for weeks and months and then it will be forgotten, like the many cases before this.
Rob Sadler
International Solidarity Movement
1. A sniper fired from a building – one or two shots – and they targeted and murdered Aysenur.

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