"It is unfortunate but it is not unprecedented," American lawyer and Palestinian rights activist Tarek Khalil told Al Jazeera. "It is another incident, another horrific killing of an innocent person that is protesting." Earlier this year, an off-duty Israeli police officer and a settler opened fire and killed 17-year-old U.S. citizen Tawfiq Ajaq near his ancestral village of al-Mazraa ash-Sharqiya. An investigation into the case is still ongoing. In 2022, an Israeli sniper shot U.S. citizen and Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was reporting at the time in the Jenin refugee camp. The killings came amid an intensification of violence in the West Bank following the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023. The West Bank has seen a sharp increase in Israeli military raids, attacks by Palestinian militants, and violence between Israeli settlers and Palestinians. (Related: TWISTED: David Friedman wants U.S. to divert $1B in humanitarian aid for Palestinians to help Israel fully annex West Bank.) According to Palestinian health officials, over 690 Palestinians have been killed in the region since the conflict escalated. Eygi's death is one of several recent incidents involving the deaths of foreign nationals in the region. Head over to IsraelCollapse.com to read the latest updates on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.3 U.S. citizens have now been killed in the West Bank in 11 months. There MUST be justice & accountability. The Netanyahu gvt hasn't provided that & the Biden Admin needs to do more to obtain it.
Those responsible must be held accountable & the DOJ must take action if necessary: https://t.co/QTja0vFzkN pic.twitter.com/wTDS0AEJzl — Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) September 6, 2024
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