ISM rejects Israeli claim that killing of human rights activist was ‘unintentional’

A Turkish-American human rights activist with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), Aysenur Eygi, was killed last Friday, 6 September, by a single shot to the head from an Israeli sniper while witnessing a demonstration against the illegal Israeli settlement of Evyatar on land belonging to the Palestinians living in Beita, in the occupied West Bank. After a brief internal investigation conducted by the Israeli army, a statement asserted that, “The inquiry found that it is highly likely that she was hit indirectly and unintentionally by IDF fire which was not aimed at her.” The ISM has said that it rejects this “specious” claim and continues to demand an independent investigation of the Israeli army’s killing of Aysenur Eygi. “We are […]