The United Nations has called for a “full investigation” into the killing of a US-Turkish woman in the occupied West Bank during a protest on Friday.
Local media reported that Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot dead by Israeli forces as she took part in a weekly protest against Jewish settlement expansion in the town of Beita near Nablus.
Israel’s military said it was “looking into reports that a foreign national was killed as a result of shots fired in the area”.
Reacting to the killing, Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesman for the UN secretary general, said: “We would want to see a full investigation of the circumstances and that people should be held accountable.”
Sean Savett, spokesman for the White House’s National Security Council, said Washington was “deeply disturbed by the tragic death of an American citizen”.
“We have reached out to the government of Israel to ask for more information and request an investigation into the incident,” Savett said.
Footage from the scene shortly after the shooting shows medics rushing Eygi into an ambulance.
The dual-national was rushed to a hospital in Nablus and later pronounced dead.
Fouad Nafaa, head of Rafidia Hospital where Ms Eygi was admitted, confirmed that a US citizen in her mid-20s had died from a “gunshot in the head”.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken deplored the “tragic loss”, while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan branded the Israeli action “barbaric”.
Turkey’s foreign ministry said Eygi had been “killed by Israeli occupation soldiers in the city of Nablus”.
