Israeli soldiers shot and killed American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi on Friday while she was protesting an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, according to local media reports.
The killing of 26-year-old Eygi, who lived in the Seattle area, immediately prompted concerns that the United States government would not respond appropriately and seek accountability for her killing.
Earlier this year, two 17-year-old Palestinian Americans were killed in the West Bank: Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, a Louisiana native who was shot in January by an off-duty Israeli officer and a settler, and Mohammad Khdour, a high school senior from Florida who was shot in the head by an Israeli gunman several weeks later. In both cases, the U.S. government decried the killings but have yet to launch investigations. ….more
