Funeral held for Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, US-Turkish activist killed by Israeli forces

A funeral was held for the 26-year-old Turkish American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed last week by Israeli forces who shot her in the head.

Hundreds of mourners gathered in Nablus to pay their respects to Eygi. Her body was wrapped in a Palestinian flag, with her head covered by a keffiyeh.

Last week, Eygi was shot dead by Israeli forces after participating in a protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.

An activist who was with Eygi at the time told Middle East Eye that she and other volunteers from the International Solidarity Movement had been attending the weekly demonstration at Beita.

The activist said they retreated from soldiers, who had shot tear gas into the crowd. Then two rounds of live ammunition were fired at the group, the activist said, one of which struck Eygi in the head.

"It was a deliberate shot to the head," the activist told MEE.

The commemoration was postponed from Sunday, due to a dispute between the US and Turkey over "details such as the burial location and the route her body would take," Mahmud al-Aloul, a senior Fatah official, told the AFP news agency.