What’s being said about Israel killing Turkish-American activist Aysenur?

Israel claims it was an accident amid a riot, but witnesses tell a different story.

The body of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has returned to Turkey to be buried in Didim, where she was born.

The Turkish-American activist was killed by Israeli troops last Friday while protesting against illegal Israeli settlements.

Israel claims Aysenur was killed accidentally during a protest in Beita, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, but growing evidence contradicts that, with witnesses saying Israeli soldiers deliberately killed her.

The Israeli army said, after a brief investigation, that it was “highly likely [she was] hit” by its soldiers, adding that it was “indirectly and unintentionally”.

Aysenur was a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a group that has been protesting against Israel’s occupation of Palestine and the punishing treatment of Palestinians for years.