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Date: September 10, 2024 at 11:37:52
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Israel says 'highly likely' its troops killed US-Turkish protester in |
URL: Israel says 'highly likely' its troops killed US-Turkish protester in West Bank |
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Israel says 'highly likely' its troops killed US-Turkish protester in West
Bank
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Frances Mao
BBC News
International Solidarity Movement Aysenur Ezgi EygiInternational
Solidarity Movement
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed at a protest against Israeli settlement
expansion in the West Bank
The Israel military says a US-Turkish woman shot dead at a protest in the
occupied West Bank last week was "highly likely hit indirectly and
unintentionally" by its soldiers.
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, had been at a demonstration against Jewish
settlement expansion in the town of Beita last Friday when she was shot
by Israeli forces.
The US called its citizen's killing "unprovoked and unjustified".
Ms Eygi's family, along with the UN human rights office, have called for a
full and independent investigation into her killing.
In a brief statement summarising their investigation findings, the Israel
Defence Forces (IDF) said the gunfire had not been "aimed at her, but
aimed at the key instigator of the riot."
They added: "The IDF expresses its deepest regret over the death of
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi."
However, the US - Israel's key ally - reacted angrily. Its Secretary of State,
Antony Blinken, said Israeli forces needed to "make some fundamental
changes in the way that they operate in the West Bank, including changes
to their rules of engagement."
He said the IDF’s investigation appeared to support eyewitnesses'
testimony that Ms Eygi had been protesting peacefully and thus her killing
was “unprovoked and unjustified”.
“No-one should be shot and killed for attending a protest, no-one should
have to put their life at risk just for freely expressing their views,” Mr
Blinken told reporters shortly after Israel's release of the findings.
Ms Eygi had arrived as a volunteer in the West Bank just a few days before
she was killed.
Her family has said her life "was taken needlessly, unlawfully and violently
by the Israeli military".
EPA Palestinian honour guards hold aloft the wrapped body of Ms Eygi on
a stretcher amid a crowded turnout for her funeral procession in Nablus
on 10/9/2024.EPA
“A US citizen, Aysenur was peacefully standing for justice when she was
killed by a bullet that video shows came from an Israeli military shooter,"
her family said in statement released after her death.
Prior to the release of the Israeli report, the US and Turkish governments
had condemned Ms Eygi's killing. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
branding it as "barbaric".
In its statement, the IDF said the "incident" had taken place during "a
violent riot in which dozens of Palestinian suspects burned tires and
hurled rocks toward security forces at the Beita Junction."
But the protest group which Ms Eygi had been with at the time dismissed
claims it threw rocks at Israeli soldiers, saying such assertions were
“false”. They said their protest had been peaceful.
Witnesses and other protesters at the demonstration have also said while
there were some clashes with Israeli soldiers, Ms Eygi had not been near
that area when she was hit.
Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli activist who was at the same protest as Ms
Eygi, said he heard two gun shots.
He told the BBC's Newshour programme there had been "no stone
throwing" at Ms Eygi's location.
It had been her first time attending a protest in the West Bank, he said.
She had been with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a pro-
Palestinian organisation which takes part in weekly demonstrations at
Beita against Israeli settlements.
Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since
it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land the Palestinians want
as part of a future state - in the 1967 Middle East war.
The vast majority of the international community considers the
settlements illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.
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Date: September 10, 2024 at 13:22:38
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: She was shot in the head by a sniper, but let's move on now (NT) |
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Date: September 10, 2024 at 14:00:07
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: She was shot. Blinken responded. IDF admits. Forgedaboutit. |
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She was shot. Blinken responded. IDF admits.
But rather than admit you were wrong about Blinken, you
want to discard the whole subject.
If the subject wasn't so tragic your response is
shameful. Blinken responding is just not something you
can use.
Yeah. Let's forget about her. She's just not good
poster.
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Date: September 10, 2024 at 14:20:19
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: who will go to prison for shooting an unarmed person in the head? |
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you are a tragic, disturbing human being. RIP.
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Date: September 11, 2024 at 19:16:52
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: who will go to prison for shooting an unarmed person in the head? |
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THAT PERSON WILL GO TO HELL IF THEY ARE NOT SORRY FOR
THE ACT. sorry my caps lock was on.
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Date: September 10, 2024 at 14:33:17
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: who will go to prison for admitting they were a teensy bit wrong? |
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Not you.
You can't admit you were a teensy bit wrong.
The IDF investigated. They admitted. Was the soldier
following orders? Who did it? They know. The ranks
will close to protect the system. My bet no one will
go to prison, but this has the potential to hurt the
IDF far more than that.
Less respect.
Fewer munitions.
More oversight.
This will cost them, possibly even as much as the
protestor's family. This is war.
Thank Hamas.
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Date: September 10, 2024 at 14:25:34
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: who will go to prison for shooting an unarmed person in the head? |
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It's always like that, eh? You can't have a reasonable conversation with
people that have opposing views. In other words you would not be able to
do the things you expect others to do..
Which makes me wonder..
How come you have such high and mighty expectations of others if in fact
you yourself are unable to live up to them? Isn't that a tad unfair?
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Date: September 10, 2024 at 14:49:08
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: who will go to prison for shooting an unarmed person in the head? |
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You're mistaken. I have zero expectations of you or mitra. I can generally
predict what your replies will be and I am infrequently disappointed.
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