The Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry today condemned the killing of a US activist by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Beita, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

The Ministry condemned in the strongest possible terms the killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old US activist of Turkish origin, who was directly shot in the head during a peaceful demonstration in the village of Beita.

It slammed Eygi’s killing as an integral part of the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people, including the crime of genocide and forced displacement, and as a direct outcome of the implementation of the instructions of the political echelon of Israel, the occupying power, which has laxed open-fire regulations and made it easier for Israeli soldiers to use live fire to kill Palestinians and solidarity activists.

It held the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for this heinous crime, which serves as evidence of Israel’s predetermined plans, designed to
escalate the already volatile regional situation further and create a smokescreen to hide Israel’s supremacist Jewish settler-colonialism in the occupied Palestinian territories.

It called on the international community along with international human rights and humanitarian organizations to take immediate action to provide protection to the Palestinian people and assume their legal and moral responsibilities towards the crimes inflicted on Palestinians in a manner that would be conducive to holding Israeli war criminals accountable for their atrocities.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA