Israel–Hamas War: 10/7/2023 - Present

[Nkrumah Was Right]

 

[3rdWorld]

Your hard earned tax dollars paid for that


Meanwhile..

'No one will preach to me': Netanyahu pushes back after Biden's 'not enough' remark

Israelis had poured into the streets late Sunday in grief and anger in what appeared to be the largest protest since the start of the war

www.firstpost.com

 

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[Conan]

Hamas sponsored that editorial

 

[Jalether]

This is exactly what it's like having a conversation with a morbid zionist
It's like speaking to a brick wall

 

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[Orbital-Fetus]

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Worth the watch...

 

[No Ma’am]

 

[Guess Who]

 

[east]

edit: updated with nyt story

A Turkish American woman was fatally shot on Friday in the occupied West Bank, where witnesses said she was taking part in a protest against an Israeli settler outpost.

And in a separate incident a few miles away, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl was shot and killed during a violent clash pitting Israeli settlers and troops against Palestinians, Palestinian officials said.

Their deaths add to the rising tide of West Bank violence since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel prompted the war in Gaza. Israel launched an operation to root out Palestinian militant groups in the northern West Bank, who they say were responsible for over 150 attacks over the past year.

According to the United Nations, Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 600 people in the West Bank, the largest toll in years; many of those killed were claimed as members by militant groups, but others appear to have been civilians.

In the shootings on Friday, witnesses and Palestinian officials said Israeli soldiers had fired the shots that killed the Turkish American, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, and the Palestinian girl, Bana Laboom. Those claims could not immediately be confirmed, and the Israeli military said it was looking into both cases.

The State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, confirmed the death of Ms. Eygi, and offered condolences to her family.

“We are urgently gathering more information about the circumstances of her death,” he said.

Turkey’s foreign ministry said that Ms. Eygi, 26, was also a Turkish citizen and blamed Israel’s government for her killing.

Ms. Eygi, who lived in Seattle, had recently arrived in Israel to join activists affiliated with the International Solidarity Movement, who demonstrate alongside Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

On Friday, she joined the rally in Beita, where residents have been protesting for years — sometimes violently — against a settler outpost on lands claimed by the village. The Israeli government had recently said it would legalize the outpost.

By 2:35 p.m., she was dead, her head split by a bullet, in Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, said Fouad Nafia, the hospital’s director.

The demonstrations around Beita began before the current war between Israel and Hamas. Israeli settlers took over a nearby hilltop in 2021, erecting an outpost known as Evyatar on land claimed by the village. That prompted months of deadly protests in which several residents of Beita were killed and scores wounded.

The outpost was illegal under Israeli law when it was established, lacking Israeli government authorization. But in June, Israel’s cabinet agreed to retroactively legalize five such outposts, including Evyatar, following a demand by Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister and a settler leader.

Most of the world considers all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank to be illegal under international law, which Israel disputes. Roughly 500,000 Israeli settlers live in the territory alongside nearly three million Palestinians, who live under Israeli military occupation.

On Friday, the Israeli military said soldiers had “responded with fire toward a main instigator of violent activity” who threw stones at Israeli forces. Witnesses on the scene did not deny that some protesters had hurled rocks at Israeli troops, but they said the clashes were over when Ms. Eygi was shot.

The protest began around noon, with dozens of residents and a smattering of international activists, including Ms. Eygi, rallying near Jabal Sbeih, the hilltop upon which Evyatar sits, the witnesses said. The Israeli military had preceded them; the Palestinian residents conducted a communal prayer on the scene.

After the prayers were finished, clashes broke out, witnesses said.

Some demonstrators threw stones at Israeli soldiers some distance away, while the soldiers fired tear gas and some bullets, said Hisham al-Dweikat, a Beita resident who attended the demonstration. The group of demonstrators then headed downhill roughly 220 yards into the built-up outskirts of the town, away from the troops, he added.

The Israeli soldiers remained in roughly the same position, taking over the rooftop of a nearby building, said Jonathan Pollak, a hard-left Israeli activist who was at the demonstration. By then, people had mostly scattered and there were no clashes in the area, he said.

“I was standing in the road,” said Mr. Pollak. “And she was standing in an olive grove further away.”

About a half an hour after the demonstrators had retreated, Mr. Pollak said he saw one of the soldiers on the roof fire a single gunshot. He immediately took cover as he heard a second gunshot, he added.

One shot wounded a Palestinian man, he said. The International Solidarity Movement said the man was struck in the leg, although one witness said the bullet had first ricocheted off a metal pole.

The other hit Ms. Eygi — who was standing roughly 50 feet away from Mr. Pollak — in the head, he said. She was too far away from the soldiers to pose them a threat, he added.

“I put my hand on the back of her head to try and stop the bleeding,” said Mr. Pollak. “She had a very weak pulse.”

Ms. Eygi was rushed to a local clinic in Beita before being taken by ambulance to the largest nearby city, Nablus. By the time she arrived, she was no longer breathing, said Dr. Nafia, the hospital director.

Cemal Birden, Ms. Eygi’s uncle, said he was still in a state of shock. Her family had moved from Antalya, on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coast, to the United States when she was less than a year old, he said.

He said he had tried to warn Ms. Eygi — who had studied psychology — that going to Jerusalem was too dangerous.

“My niece was such a pure, such a good kid,” said Mr. Birden in a telephone interview.

Akram Khatib, the Palestinian Authority’s attorney general, said Palestinian health officials would conduct an autopsy on Ms. Eygi’s body. Reached by phone, he declined to say whether the authority would work with Israeli authorities to conduct the forensic analysis.

Ms. Laboom, the 13-year-old, was killed in Qaryut, a village near Nablus, where there was a clash between a large group of Israeli settlers and Palestinians, with both sides throwing stones, according to Yousef Muammar, the village mayor.

The Israeli military later raided the center of the town, Mr. Muammar said, leading to more clashes.

Ms. Laboom was watching the events from a window when a bullet struck her, Mr. Muammar said. Adam al-Johari, Palestinian paramedic, said he found the girl dead minutes later.

Both said the Israeli military had fired the deadly shot. The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports.

Israeli soldiers shoot and kill an American woman during a West Bank protest, witness says

An anti-settlement protester in the West Bank tells The Associated Press he witnessed Israeli soldiers fatally shoot an American woman participating in a weekly protest outside the town of Beita

abcnews.go.com

Israeli forces shoot and kill 17-year-old Palestinian-American boy

Israeli forces shot dead Mohammad Ahmed Mohammad Khdour, 17, a U.S. citizen, on February 10 in the central occupied West Bank.

www.dci-palestine.org

Israeli soldiers will not face criminal charges in death of elderly Palestinian-American

The Israeli military says it will not bring criminal charges against soldiers involved in the death of a 78-year-old Palestinian-American who was dragged from a car, bound and blindfolded after being stopped at an impromptu checkpoint last year.

apnews.com

A witness says the fatal shooting of an American-Palestinian teen in the occupied West Bank was unprovoked

The passenger in a pickup truck where an American-Palestinian was fatally shot in the occupied West Bank says the shooting was unprovoked.

apnews.com

American, 19, Among Gaza Flotilla Dead

American Furkan Dogan, 19, was among those killed on a Gaza bound aid flotilla. He was shot five times, including four times in the head.

abcnews.go.com

Israel court rejects appeal in death of American activist

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the family of pro-Palestinian American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed over a decade ago in Gaza. The family had challenged a lower court's ruling in 2012 that exonerated the government of all wrongdoing. Corrie, a...

apnews.com

Israeli police beat pallbearers at journalist's funeral

Israeli police pushed and beat pallbearers during the funeral for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, causing them to briefly drop the casket.

apnews.com

Palestine: Shireen Abu Akleh shrine desecrated in the West Bank / IFJ

The site of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing in Jenin has been bulldozed and her shrine desecrated, in an unexplained early-morning operation on 26 October. A surfaced road running between houses has been reduced to huge boulders of broken concrete, and earth dug to...

www.ifj.org

 

[LuuqMaan]

Name tells me it’s the wrong type of American citizen

 

[King Sun]

 

[east]

Name tells me it’s the wrong type of American citizen

she's turkish not palestinian, but when they have total impunity to kill white american women with isil-style vehicle ramming attacks, is there really a right type?