Killing of Ayşenur Eygi

On 6 September 2024, 26-year-old Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a U.S. and Turkish dual citizen, was shot and killed by Israeli military forces during a protest against illegal Israeli settlements near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Eygi was born in Turkey in 1998 and raised in Seattle, Washington. She arrived in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on 3 September 2024 to engage in activism work with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

The weekly protest in Beita against settlement expansion has been held for years and often been the site of Israeli crackdown. Since March 2020, seventeen Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces while attending the protest, and in August 2024 an American protester was shot in the leg by Israeli forces while fleeing live fire and tear gas. Two other U.S. citizens have been killed in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war. Eygi was the third to be shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2024, after Tawfic Abdel Jabbar and Mohammad Khdour. On each occasion, the U.S. government condemned the killings without investigating. On 10 September 2024, Israel claimed that Eygi was "likely unintentionally shot" by its forces. This has been contested by witnesses and rejected by Eygi's family, who argue that it is inadequate for Israel to investigate itself. Video evidence obtained by The Washington Post also fails to support Israel's story.