One year after Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was killed, the US has not investigated. Her family wants answers

One year after Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was killed, the US has not investigated. Her family wants answers

Curated from US news | The Guardian — Here’s what matters right now:

The American Turkish woman, 26, was shot in the head on 6 September 2024 by an Israeli sniper in the West Bank Özden Bennett’s first reaction after learning of her younger sister’s killing was disbelief. Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi had traveled to the occupied West Bank just three days earlier to volunteer with Palestinian communities facing violence at the hands of Israeli soldiers and settlers. But the shock and grief quickly gave way to dread – “that nothing would come of it, that she would have just died under that olive tree and that was it”, Bennett said this week, before the anniversary of Eygi’s death. Continue reading...

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Original reporting: US news | The Guardian

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