Israeli Military Says Activist Shot ‘Unintentionally’

An American activist shot and killed at a West Bank demonstration on Sept. 6 was hit unintentionally, an Israeli army inquiry has found. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, who also held Turkish citizenship, was killed at a demonstration near Beita Junction, where dozens of protesters burned tires and threw rocks at Israeli security forces, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a Sept. 10 statement. “The inquiry found that it is highly likely that she was hit indirectly and unintentionally by IDF fire which was not aimed at her, but aimed at the key instigator of the riot,” the IDF said. The IDF expressed “its deepest regret” over Eygi’s death....