Killing of Ayşenur Eygi

On 6 September 2024, 26-year-old woman Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, an American 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 held in Beita against settlement expansion has been held for years and often was 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 protestor was shot in the leg by Israeli forces while fleeing live fire and tear gas. Two other American citizens have been killed in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war. She was the third American citizen to be shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2024, the other two being Tawfic Abdel Jabbar (17) and Mohammad Khdour (17). On each occasion the U.S. Government condemned the killings without launching investigations. On 10 September 2024, Israel claimed that Eygi was "likely unintentionally shot" by its forces. This version 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 has also failed to support Israel's conclusion.