Witness to the shooting of activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces says it was ‘intentional’

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Witness to the shooting of activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces says it was ‘intentional’
“It is an intentional killing that is now receiving the light of day because she is an American citizen. It was an intentional killing.”
Witness to the shooting of US-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces, says the shooting was “intentional”.
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, died of her wounds after participating in a protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, the Palestinian Wafa agency reported.
An activist who was with Eygi at the time told Middle East Eye that she and other volunteers from the International Solidarity Movement had been attending the weekly demonstration at Beita.
The activist said they retreated from soldiers, who had shot tear gas into the crowd. Then two rounds of live ammunition were fired at the group, the activist said, one of which struck Eygi in the head.
"When she was shot, she was standing there doing absolutely nothing with one other woman - it was a deliberate shot because they shot from a very, very, very far distance," said the activist, who did not want to be identified.

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