American-Turkish Activist Shot & Killed By Israeli Forces In West Bank

Israel’s IDF military has been engaged in an intense 10-day operation in the West Bank, which in the last several days has been heavily focused on ‘counter-terror’ operations in Jenin. The Palestinian health ministry has said at least 36 Palestinians have been killed during what is widely being described as the IDF’s biggest operation in the West Bank in years. There are now fears that the situation could become like the Gaza Strip.

The deteriorating situation has attracted the greater scrutiny of Washington after on Friday 26-year old American-Turkish human rights activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was reportedly gunned down by Israeli soldiers. Eyewitnesses near the scene of her death described that Israeli forces used live ammunition on a large group of protesters.

“During the weekly protest in Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, IDF soldiers opened fire at the protesters using live ammunition,” Jerusalem Post writes of the eyewitness accounts. “Eygi was subsequently critically wounded in the head. The 26 years old activist was evacuated to Rafida Hospital in Nablus, where she later died.”