Funeral held in Nablus for Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi who was killed by Israel

In the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the body of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was carried through the streets wrapped in a Palestinian flag as part of a sombre funeral procession honouring her life and sacrifice. Israeli forces fatally shot Eygi in the head as she attended a protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank. Her death came amid heightened tensions across the occupied territory and was shortly followed by the closure of land crossings into Jordan, which complicated efforts to repatriate her body. Eygi’s participation in the protest was her first with the International Solidarity Movement, which supports Palestinians in non-violent resistance against Israeli illegal settlements. ISM reported that Israeli forces have killed 17 Palestinians in similar confrontations in the area since March 2020. In the wake of her death, US officials have stated that they do not yet “know with full certainty what transpired” and are awaiting the findings of an Israeli investigation. The US also rejected calls for an independent investigation into Eygi’s killing. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel emphasised the need for Israel to conduct a thorough and transparent probe but confirmed that Washington is not planning its own investigation. Patel stressed that while the US is working to ascertain the facts, there is no State Department-led investigation underway, as Eygi’s family had requested.