‘The Israeli army has lost control of its snipers’
Menachem Klein, professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University, says the Israeli government is trying to “manage the crisis of” the killing of US activist Aysenur Eygi better than it did with the murder of Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh – both at the hands of Israeli forces.
“I doubt if this will help Israel vis-a-vis the United States. It seems the Israeli army has lost control of its snipers. The command is very weak,” Klein told Al Jazeera, speaking from West Jerusalem.
Klein said that it is clear that the army is applying the same methods used in Gaza in the West Bank, as well. “Unfortunately, US Secretary of State Blinken did not condemn the Israeli army operations and the methods used in Gaza,” he said.
“The US must impose on Israel changes in the operational mode that the [Israeli army] uses. Without that, Israel will fool the Americans and mislead them. There is in the Israeli army a culture of covering up war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza,” Klein added.
US says closely watching Israel’s ‘criminal’ probe of killing of US activist
The White House says it will be closely watching what it called a “criminal” investigation by Israel into the killing of American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the occupied West Bank last week.
Israel’s military said it was highly likely its troops fired the shot that killed the woman at a protest in the West Bank, but said her death was unintentional and expressed deep regret.
As closely as they're watching the criminal probe into Hind Rijab and the WCK killings? ...
State Department not investigating killing of US citizen Aysenur Eygi
US State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said yesterday that the department is not conducting its own investigation into the killing of US citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the occupied West Bank, who was shot and killed last Friday by Israeli forces.
Instead, US officials expect Israel to investigate the matter.
Biden says Israeli killing of US-Turkish activist appears an ‘accident’
President Joe Biden says Israel’s killing of a US-Turkish activist during a protest in the occupied West Bank last week appears to be an accident.
“Apparently, it was an accident – it ricocheted off the ground and she got hit by accident,” Biden told reporters, hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was “unprovoked and unjustified”.
Blinken condemned the fatal shooting, saying the US would make clear to its ally that such actions are “not acceptable”.
“No one – no one – should be shot and killed for attending a protest. Israeli security forces need to make some fundamental changes in the way they operate in the West Bank.”
A sniper accidentally shot her in the head from 200 meters away? The angle of the bullet entry would clarify, yet shooting at a crowd from far away with a sniper rifle, that's no accident. That's not a defense, intentionally targeting a crowd with lethal ammunition.
Fatally shot Turkish-American activist hid her travel from family
In an interview with Turkey’s HaberTurk television, Yilmaz Eygi also said that based on information from witnesses, he believes his niece was “deliberately” killed by Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli military said Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26 – a volunteer with the activist group International Solidarity Movement – was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by Israeli forces.
Yilmaz Eygi said: “From what we watched on the news and according to eyewitnesses, it was a murder committed deliberately.”
He said his niece, who was in Didim, Turkey, two weeks earlier, told family members she was travelling to Jordan.
“As her family, as her elders, we didn’t want her to come to any harm. We were opposed to her going to Jordan even. She hid the fact she was going to Palestine. She blocked us from her social media posts so that we would not see them,” Yilmaz Eygi said.
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