Turkish-American Protester Shot, Killed

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American activist shot dead by Israeli forces at West Bank protest, eyewitnesses say | CNN

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Turkish-American Aysenur Eygi was shot and killed in the West Bank on Friday .

Eyewitnesses say she was taking part in a protest against an Israeli settlement near Nablus .

Eygi had been volunteering with the same pro-Palestinian activist group as Rachel Corrie , a US citizen who was killed in 2003 while trying to block an Israeli bulldozer from razing Palestinian homes in Gaza .

She was a University of Washington graduate who graduated this spring .

Eygi 's death comes nine days after Israel launched one of its most expansive operations in the West Bank in years .

Turkey ’s Foreign Ministry condemns her death, says it holds the Israeli government responsible.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the US is working to “gather the facts” of her killing.

ISM describes itself as a Palestinian -led movement to resist the “oppression and dispossession of Palestinians ”.

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