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‘World needs to wake up’, witness to activist’s killing by Israeli soldier says
Palestinian rights activist Jonathan Pollak, who was at the scene when an Israeli sniper shot Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the head, says the claim that her killing was unintentional is a “lie” as he watched the shooter take aim and fire.
He said an internal inquiry by Israel would be just another “whitewash investigation that attempts to deflect blame and attention from Israeli crimes”.
Pollak said Israel’s powerful allies have to take action to achieve justice for Eygi and the Palestinian people being murdered with impunity by Israeli forces.
“The world needs to wake up. The US administration and Western powers must hold Israel accountable,” he told Al Jazeera.
Israeli killing of Turkish-American activist shows US double standards
The killing of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has revealed the US government’s double standards when it comes to the lives of its own dual citizens, according to British-Israeli analyst Daniel Levy of the US-Middle East project.
“We are very used to the US and its policies treating Israelis and Palestinians not as equal humans … but what about American citizens? Here you are creating that separation line between lesser and more human Americans with a different set of rights,” he told Al Jazeera.
There are growing calls for US President Joe Biden to push for an independent investigation.
“It’s absolutely the correct thing for the Biden administration to be wrapping their arms around the families of the dual national Israeli Americans who have been killed or who are being held in Gaza, but what about a dual national American killed by the same Israeli military who get their weapons and political and diplomatic cover from the US?”
“Biden’s instinctive, automatic go-to place is, ‘How do I protect Israel, how do I defend Israel, what lie can I tell?’”
Mother of pro-Palestinian activist killed in 2003 responds to latest slaying
American peace activist and International Solidarity Movement volunteer Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to prevent a home demolition in Gaza in 2003.
Her mother talked to Al Jazeera after the shooting death of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the occupied West Bank last week. Watch the video below:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_vDY75IDw_/
