American Citizen Fatally Shot by IDF Soldier During Pro-Palestine Protest in West Bank
US citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was fatally shot by IDF soldiers during a pro-Palestinian protest that took place near Nabulus in the northern West Bank on Friday.
According to AP News, protests started out as peaceful, but turned violent when activists began throwing stones at Israeli Defense Force soldiers, prompting them to fire live ammunition into the crowd.
One of the IDF bullets tragically struck Eygi in the head, killing her on site.
From AP News:
“The Israeli military said it was looking into reports that troops had killed a foreign national while firing at an ‘instigator of violent activity’ in the area of the protest.
The killing came amid a surge of violence in the West Bank since the Israel-Hamas war began in October,
