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‘Message is no resistance to Israeli colonialism will be tolerated’
Witness Jonathan Pollak says the Israeli sniper who shot dead pro-Palestinian activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, stood about 200 metres (220 yards) away from her on an elevated position when he fired the fatal shot.
“There was no one around other than her who could have possibly been the target. She was deliberately hit by a soldier standing on a rooftop aiming at her head. That soldier took a kill shot, and anything else the Israelis say is a cover-up,” Pollak told Al Jazeera.
He noted 17 anti-settler protesters have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank village of Beita since 2021 – “and none of them got justice.”
“The same bullet that killed Aysenur is the same bullet that Israel uses to kill Palestinians in Nur Shams, in the Jenin refugee camp, in Tubas. It is the same bullet Israel uses to perpetuate its genocide in Gaza with complete impunity. These things are part of one whole.”
Pollak said a demonstration was held again on Friday in the West Bank village of Beita, a week after Eygi’s killing. “The Israeli army came there and even prevented people from praying in her honour. The message is ‘no resistance to Israeli colonialism will be tolerated.'”
Israeli forces raid more towns in occupied West Bank
Several Palestinians have suffered tear gas inhalation during an Israeli raid in Madama, a town south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Wafa news agency reports.
Quoting local sources, it said Israeli troops stormed the town with heavy gunfire and tear gas, leading to confrontations with residents.
Earlier, Israeli soldiers also raided al-Tabqa village, south of Hebron. Wafa said “dozens” of Palestinians suffered tear gas inhalation there too.
Israeli sniper kills UN worker in the West Bank
Earlier, we reported on the killing of a UN staff member in the occupied West Bank. More details have now emerged.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said the employee was its first to be killed in the Palestinian territory in more than a decade. UNRWA said in a statement Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad was “shot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper” in the Far’a camp in the northern West Bank.
“The northern West Bank has experienced weeks of protracted Israeli military operations,” said Roland Friedrich, director of UNRWA in the occupied territory.
“Civilian infrastructure, including water and electricity networks, have been destroyed with precarious access for communities to basic supplies. UNRWA has been forced to suspend services … because of the unacceptable risk to staff.”
Jawwad’s death is in addition to six other UNRWA staffers killed in Gaza on Wednesday in an Israeli strike on a UN-run shelter. It was the highest single death toll for the agency.
