Female international activist killed in Israeli gunfire south of Nablus

A 26-year-old female international activist succumbed to her wounds on Friday after being shot and critically injured in the head by Israeli occupation forces in Beita, a town located south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

The activist, who was identified as Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, an American of Turkish descent, was shot in the head by live ammunition while participating in the weekly protest against settlement expansion.

Medical sources confirmed that the activist was rushed to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus and placed in the intensive care unit. Despite the efforts of medical teams to save her, she passed away due to her severe injuries.

Local sources indicated that the confrontation erupted when Israeli forces violently suppressed the protest, which involved firing live ammunition, stun grenades, and tear gas at demonstrators. The same incident also resulted in an 18-year-old Palestinian being injured by shrapnel in the thigh.

The Palestinian National Council condemned this criminal act against the activist, stressing that it shows the racist and brutal nature of the Israeli occupation and that it is part of the occupation’s repressive policies and war of genicide and ethnic cleansing on the Palestinians.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry slammed Eygi’s killing as an integral part of the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people, including the crime of genocide and forced displacement, and as a direct outcome of the implementation of the instructions of the occupation to use live fire to kill Palestinians and solidarity activists.

It held the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for this heinous crime.

Also, Hussein Sheikh, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) condemned the killing of American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces, describing it as another crime in a series of daily violations by the occupation forces.

In a statement posted to his X account, Sheikh emphasized the need for holding those responsible accountable in international courts.

WAFA News Agency

Edited by Amal Farhat