US Senator calls for Justice Department to open independent investigations into Eygi's killing

US Senator, Bernie Sanders, on Friday called for the Justice Department to open independent investigations into the Israeli killing of a Turkish-American activist in the West Bank, Anadolu Agency reports. “By continuing to credulously accept the explanations of an extremist Israeli government whose stated goal is to annex the West Bank and push Palestinians off their land, the United States makes a mockery of its values and abdicates its responsibility to investigate and respond to attacks on its citizens,” the Vermont independent Senator said in a statement. The US Justice Department must open its own, independent investigations into these attacks on American citizens by the Israeli security forces Sanders wrote. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was fatally shot in the head […]