A recent University of Washington graduate, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, has been the subject of a photo circulating widely on the internet.
On September 6, Aysenur Eygi, a 26-year-old female activist with dual American and Turkish citizenship, was killed by Israeli forces south of Nablus in the West Bank during a protest against settlement expansion. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry condemned her killing and offered condolences to Turkey’s government, its people, and Eygi’s family. They described the killing as part of Israel’s pattern of violence and human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry accused the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of her murder, according to an article by Egyptian Streets>
Eygi arrived at the hospital in critical condition with a head injury and was pronounced dead upon arrival.
Since October 7, Israeli forces have killed over 690 Palestinians in the West Bank, and Israeli settlements in the West Bank, home to approximately 490,000 settlers, are considered illegal under international law.
