U.S. officials have so far indicated that they will do nothing to pursue accountability for Eygi’s killers.
Crowds are gathered at Lake Merritt to commemorate Aysenur Ezgi Eygi and to protest Israel, in Oakland, California, on September 9, 2024.Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Sen.
They then raised Israel’s killings of multiple American citizens in the occupied West Bank, like two 17-year-old boys who Israelis killed earlier this year and journalist Shireen Abu Akleh — killings that have either been swept aside by U.S. officials or completely ignored, seemingly to In deflecting and defaulting to the Israeli position, U.S. officials appear to be following the same playbook they deployed when Israeli forces killed Abu Akleh as she was reporting on an Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank in 2022. Then, amid activist pressure, the Bidenconcern over her killing and called for accountability, but ultimately defaulted to relying only on Israel’s account of the incident.
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