A whole lot of mourners gathered Monday in Nablus, within the occupied West Financial institution, to pay respects to a US-Turkish activist killed whereas protesting towards Israeli settlements in a close-by city.
The physique of the slain 26-year-old, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, was wrapped in a Palestinian flag, along with her head lined by a keffiyeh, a standard scarf symbolising the Palestinian battle towards Israel.
Palestinian safety forces carried her physique by means of the streets of Nablus, accompanied by the sound of Palestinian bagpipes, earlier than a wreath was positioned over her stays.
The memorial, which started at Nablus’s Rafidia hospital, drew giant crowds.
The UN rights workplace stated Israeli forces killed Eygi with a “shot within the head”. The mayor of Beita and the Palestinian information company Wafa additionally reported that she was killed by Israeli troopers.
The Israeli military acknowledged it had opened fireplace within the Beita space and stated it was “trying into studies {that a} overseas nationwide was killed on account of pictures fired”.
The United Nations stated Eygi had been participating in a “peaceable anti-settlement protest” in Beita, scene of weekly demonstrations.
Turkey condemned her dying, whereas the US known as it “tragic” and pressed its ally Israel to analyze.
The commemoration was postponed from Sunday, on account of a dispute between the US and Turkey over “particulars such because the burial location and the route her physique would take”, stated Mahmud al-Aloul, a senior Fatah official.
Aloul stated that “Palestine could be honoured for the martyr to be buried right here”.
Since Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel which triggered the warfare in Gaza, Israeli troops or settlers have killed greater than 662 Palestinians within the West Financial institution, based on the Palestinian well being ministry.
At the least 23 Israelis, together with safety forces, have been killed in Palestinian assaults throughout the identical interval, based on Israeli officers.
Israeli settlements within the West Financial institution, the place about 490,000 individuals reside, are unlawful underneath worldwide legislation.
