UN calls for full inquiry into West Bank shooting

The United Nations has called for a "full investigation" into the sidesplitting of a US-Turkish pistillate successful the occupied West Bank during a protestation connected Friday.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed aft Israeli forces opened fire.

The 26-year-old was taking portion successful a play protestation against Jewish colony enlargement successful the municipality of Beita adjacent Nablus.

According to section media reports, Ms Eygi was changeable by Israeli troops. Israel's subject said it was "looking into reports that a overseas nationalist was killed arsenic a effect of shots fired successful the area".

An eyewitness told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme helium had heard 2 shots fired astatine the protest.

Reacting to the killing, Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the UN caput general, said: "We would privation to spot a afloat probe of the circumstances and that radical should beryllium held accountable."

Civilians, helium added, "must beryllium protected astatine each times".

The US besides called for an probe into the incident. Sean Savett, spokesperson for the White House's National Security Council, said Washington was "deeply disturbed by the tragic decease of an American citizen".

"We person reached retired to the authorities of Israel to inquire for much accusation and petition an probe into the incident," Mr Savett said.

Footage from the country soon aft the shooting shows medics rushing Ms Eygi into an ambulance.

Jewish-Israeli activistic Jonathan Pollak, who was astatine the protest, told BBC World Service's Newshour programme helium had seen "soldiers connected the rooftop aiming".

He said helium had heard 2 abstracted shots, "with similar a 2nd oregon 2 region betwixt them".

"I heard idiosyncratic calling my name, saying successful English, 'Help us. We request help. We request help." I ran towards them," helium said.

He said helium had past seen Ms Eygi "lying connected the crushed underneath an olive tree, bleeding to decease from her head".

"I enactment my manus down her backmost to effort and halt the bleeding," helium said. "I looked up, determination was a wide enactment of show betwixt the soldiers and wherever we were. I took her pulse, and it was very, precise weak."

He added that Friday's objection had been Ms Eygi's archetypal clip attending a protestation with the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian group.

The dual-national was rushed to a infirmary successful Nablus and aboriginal pronounced dead.

Dr Fouad Nafaa, caput of Rafidia Hospital wherever Ms Eygi was admitted, confirmed that a US national successful her mid-20s had died from a "gunshot successful the head".

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken deplored the "tragic loss", portion Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan branded the Israeli enactment "barbaric".

Turkey's overseas ministry said Ms Eygi had been "killed by Israeli concern soldiers successful the metropolis of Nablus".

Before travelling to the Middle East, Ms Eygi had precocious graduated from the University of Washington successful Seattle.

The school's president, Ana Mari Cauce, described quality of her decease arsenic "awful" portion adding that Ms Eygi had had a "positive influence" connected different students.

Ms Eygi was calved successful Antalya, arsenic reported by Turkish media.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said: "During Israeli information forces enactment adjacent to the country of Beita, the forces responded with occurrence toward a main instigator of convulsive enactment who hurled rocks astatine the forces and posed a menace to them.

"The IDF is looking into reports that a overseas nationalist was killed arsenic a effect of shots fired successful the area. The details of the incidental and the circumstances successful which she was deed are nether review."

In his interrogation with the BBC, Jonathan Pollak was asked astir the IDF's statement, wherever the Israeli subject said information forces had responded to stone-throwing.

Mr Pollak said determination had been clashes but helium felt that soldiers had been "under nary threat".

There had been "no chromatic throwing" wherever she had been, helium said.

Israeli forces withdrew from Jenin metropolis and its exile campy successful the occupied West Bank connected Friday, pursuing a large nine-day cognition there.

The Palestinian wellness ministry says astatine slightest 36 Palestinians were killed - 21 from Jenin governorate - successful that time. Most of the dormant person been claimed by equipped groups arsenic members, but the ministry says children are besides among those killed.

In the past 50 years, Israel has built settlements successful the West Bank and East Jerusalem, wherever much than 700,000 Jews present live.

Settlements are held to beryllium amerciable nether planetary instrumentality - that is the presumption of the UN Security Council and the UK government, among others - though Israel rejects this.