American-Turkish woman shot dead at anti-settler protest in West Bank

(Two Americans killed by the IDF in a week. The first being the one killed when Israel bombed the tunnel the 6 hostages were in and now an IDF sniper just pops one in the West Bank for daring to protest their illegal occupation. And what do you think our complicit media will say about it?)

from The Guardian H/T T

An American-Turkish dual national has been shot dead – reportedly by Israeli troops – while participating in a protest against settler expansion in the occupied West Bank.

Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old volunteer with the anti-occupation International Solidarity Movement, died in hospital on Friday after being shot in the head during a protest in Beita, near Nablus, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Witnesses said she was shot at by Israeli soldiers positioned in a nearby field after “minor clashes” broke out. Troops surrounded a group of people praying, and Palestinians began to throw stones, which the soldiers responded to with teargas and live ammunition.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they were looking into the report that troops had killed a foreign national while firing at an “instigator of violent activity”...

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