US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamla Harris said that the Israeli army’s killing of an American activist in the West Bank is “unacceptable” and that Israel must make more efforts to ensure that the incident does not repeat itself.
Israel claimed responsibility for the killing of Aisha Nur Ezgi Eji ( 26 years old) while participating in a protest against settlement expansion in the West Bank. Biden said that the US government expects to continue to be informed of the ongoing investigation into the circumstances of the shooting.
Biden added in a statement, “There must be a full accounting.” Israel must do more to ensure that incidents like this do not happen again.”
Harris said in a separate statement that no one should be killed for participating in a peaceful protest.
She added, “The shooting that led to her death is a matter of It is unacceptable and raises legitimate questions about the behavior of IDF personnel in the West Bank.”
Turkish American Aisha Nour was shot dead last Friday while participating in a protest march in the town of Beita near Nablus, where Palestinians are subjected to repeated attacks from right-wing Jewish settlers. The extremist.
Israel said that her killing was unintentional.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the 1967 war, and it is the area that the Palestinians want to be the nucleus of an independent state in the future. Israel has built a growing number of settlements there, but most countries consider them illegal. Israel rejects this, citing historical ties to the region.
The International Court of Justice said in July that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and establishment of settlements there are illegal and must be ended as soon as possible.
Iggy's relatives have called on Biden and Harris to speak to the family Directly and ordering an independent investigation into her shooting.
The family said in a statement that describing her death as an accident “is collusion with the Israeli army’s program to seize Palestinian lands and cover up the killing of an American citizen... Let us be clear, an American citizen was killed by A foreign army in a targeted attack.” Democratic US Senator Patty Murray and Representative Pramila Jayapal wrote to Biden on Wednesday and requested an “immediate, transparent, credible and comprehensive” independent US investigation.
Biden also denounced the violence taking place in the West Bank by “extremist Israeli settlers” and “Palestinian terrorists,” a day after senior American officials called for a review of the Israeli military approach in the occupied West Bank.
Biden said, “I will continue to support policies that hold all extremists, Israelis and Palestinians alike, accountable for fueling violence and obstructing peace.”