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Her trip to the West Bank, where she was shot on Friday, was Ms. Eygi’s latest effort in years of activism that began nearly a decade ago when was still a teenager.
After a young Turkish American woman was fatally shot on Friday in the occupied West Bank while protesting an Israeli settler outpost, friends of hers in the United States said she would have wanted the world to recognize that such shootings are not uncommon.
The woman, Aysenur Eyzi Eygi, 26, was in Beita, a village in the West Bank, when she was shot in the head. It was not immediately clear who was responsible, but witnesses and Palestinian officials said Israeli soldiers had fired the shots that killed her.
Ms. Egyi’s death added to the rising toll in the West Bank since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel ignited a war in Gaza. According to the United Nations, Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 600 people in the West Bank since the war began.
The trip to the West Bank was Ms. Eygi’s latest effort in years of activism that began nearly a decade ago when was still a teenager and joined rallies against the construction of an oil pipeline through the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota.
Last spring, Ms. Eygi, who was born in Turkey and raised in Washington State, had been an organizer of protests against the Gaza War at the University of Washington, where she earned a degree in psychology, with a minor in Middle Eastern languages and cultures.
“Aysenur was so energetic, and incredibly passionate about justice,” said Juliette Majid, an activist who was friends with Ms. Eygi. “Her loss is felt profoundly.”
