Italian witness said Israeli soldiers fired live bullets and tear gas at Palestinians after Friday prayers near the Evyatar settlement, while she and Aysenur, standing 200 meters away, were shot at without provocation.
The fatal attack on Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces occurred while she was unarmed in an olive grove. / Photo: Reuters
"The Israeli army dispersed the crowd using tear gas and then live bullets. We retreated down the hill to the side of the road, and about 200 meters away, there were Israeli soldiers on the roof of a Palestinian house. Turkish American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed by Israeli forces while protesting illegal settler expansion in the occupied West Bank. She is the 18th protester killed in the Palestinian village of Beita since 2020
She said that Palestinians have been suffering for decades, but after Oct. 7, this increased exponentially.
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