According to US and Palestinian sources, Aysenur Eygi, a young Turkish-American woman, was shot and murdered on Friday while participating in a protest close to Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Two eyewitnesses who spoke with CNN said that Israeli forces reacting to the gathering shot Eygi in the head. They added that the 26-year-old had been taking part in a weekly demonstration against an Israeli settlement close to the Palestinian community of Beita.

While acknowledging that it had fired at the protesters, the Israeli military has not stated whether or if there were more gunmen there. The IDF said in a statement that one of the major instigators of the violent activities “responded with fire towards the forces after he threw rocks at them and posed a threat.”

In 2003, Eygi attempted to stop an Israeli bulldozer from demolishing Palestinian homes in Gaza, resulting in her death. Rachel Corrie was a US citizen who died in 2003 while serving with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), an activist group that supports Palestine.

According to ISM, she graduated last spring from the University of Washington, a university located in Seattle.

At Beita, protests are frequent. The Palestinian village is adjacent to Evyatar, a dilapidated Israeli settler outpost. Prior to its legalisation earlier this year, the settlement was not authorised by the Israeli government. International law regards Israeli colonies as illegal.

Eygi was a citizen of the United States and Turkey. The Turkish government has stated that it believes Israel is to blame for the woman’s death, and US investigators are investigating into the tragic situation.

There was gunfire while people were fleeing.

Witnesses on Friday recounted the events that preceded her murder.

When the gunfire started, Eygi was hunched over a skip at the base of a hill, according to Vivi Chen, a volunteer for Faza’a, another pro-Palestinian organisation that collaborates with ISM. Chen verified that Eygi and ISM were present.

Chen stated, “The Israeli army was at the top of the hill, and we were all at the bottom.” “One shot was fired towards a dumpster by two volunteers who were seated behind it. It struck a metal aircraft. Subsequently, there was an additional gunshot and they got her in the head.

In the video, Chen is seen being wrestled onto a stretcher by paramedics. There’s a hole in her forehead where blood flows. After being taken to the Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, Eygi was declared dead.

Chen expressed her belief that Eygi was the target. “They possess American-made weaponry. Their blow on her head was not an accident. That was deliberate. She was only hit by one shot out of a hundred that they fired simultaneously. We were not moving; none of us was moving. They shot her in the skull when she was simply standing there.