Published December 11,2024
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The household of Turkish American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by Israeli forces within the Israeli-occupied West Bank, will meet with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday, a household spokesperson confirmed to Anadolu on Wednesday.
Family members, together with her father Mehmet Suat Eygi, her sister Özden Bennett, and her husband Hamid Ali, will even meet with Congress members on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and maintain a press convention, in keeping with the spokesperson.
The assembly comes because the household continues to induce the Biden administration to launch an impartial investigation into her killing, saying that she was killed in a deliberate assault throughout a peaceable protest.
The U.S., then again, known as on Israeli authorities to conduct a “swift, thorough, and transparent investigation” into her killing three months in the past, however no accountability has been achieved to this point.
Eygi’s household has criticized the Biden administration for an absence of accountability and the failure to provoke an impartial investigation, stating that they anticipated President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to talk with them “directly” and guarantee a clear investigation into her killing.
Neither Biden, Harris, nor Blinken has reached out to supply condolences.
When requested concerning the standing of the Israeli investigation, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller instructed Anadolu at a briefing final month that the U.S. needs to see “the end of the (Israeli) investigation” earlier than figuring out any potential for the killing of a U.S. citizen.
“We continue to press the Government of Israel to conduct its investigation and to brief us on the results of that investigation,” he stated, including that he doesn’t have an announcement but.
Eygi, 26, was killed by Israeli forces Sept. 6 throughout a peaceable protest in opposition to unlawful Israeli settlements close to Nablus within the occupied West Bank.
A preliminary investigation by Israel discovered that Eygi was “highly likely” hit “indirectly and unintentionally” by Israeli fireplace that was focusing on a “main instigator of violent activity who hurled rocks” through the protest.
Video proof and witness accounts, nonetheless, have contradicted Israel’s model of occasions, with many saying she was immediately hit by an Israeli sniper.
A report by The Washington Post additionally revealed that Eygi was shot greater than half-hour after the height of confrontations in Beita and about 20 minutes after protesters had moved over 200 yards down the principle highway, away from Israeli forces.
Turkish prosecutors launched an investigation on Sept. 11 into the killing Eygi, who was laid to relaxation within the city of Didim in western Türkiye after her physique was repatriated.
Source: www.anews.com.tr