US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the killing of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was ‘unprovoked and unjustified’.
Israel’s military says it is very likely its soldiers fired the shot that killed an American-Turkish woman at a protest in the occupied West Bank last week but says her death was unintentional and expresses deep regret.
Turkish and Palestinian officials said on Friday that Israeli soldiers shot 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who had been taking part in a demonstration against settlement expansion during a regular protest march by activists in Beita, a village near Nablus.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Israeli army said it had conducted an inquiry into the incident.
“The inquiry found that it is highly likely that she was hit indirectly and unintentionally by [Israeli military] fire which was not aimed at her, but aimed at the key instigator of the riot,” the military said.
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