Staff Writer
The Israeli occupation army has committed another heinous crime, deliberately assassinating 26-year-old American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi during a peaceful protest in Beita, Nablus, against illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
In the past 50 years, Israel has built illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where more than 700,000 Jews now live with its extremist and fascist government proposing to completely annex the Westbank.
In a statement Palestinian ambassador to Zimbabwe, Dr Tamer Almassri added that these heinous crimes against activists and journalists is a systematic Israeli attempt to silence the voice of truth and to cover up the crimes of its occupation against our people in order to isolate our Palestinian people from the rest of the world.
Dr Almassri reaveled that this tragic event is part of Israel’s systematic attempt to silence truth and cover up its occupation’s crimes. Israel’s “shoot to kill” policy has turned its soldiers into machines, perpetuating violence against Palestinians.
“The state of Palestine holds the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for this heinous crime, which serves as evidence of Israel’s predetermined plans, designed to escalate the already volatile regional situation further and create a smokescreen to hide Israel’s supremacist Jewish settler-colonialism in the occupied Palestinian territories and extension of its failed genocidal war.
“Aysenur Ezgi Eygi’s assassination follows the killings of American activist Rachel Corrie and American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces. The US government’s inaction and double standards on protecting American citizens in Palestine are alarming”, Dr Almassri explained.
Ambassador Almassri calls on the International Criminal Court along with international human rights and humanitarian organizations to take immediate action to provide protection to the Palestinian people and assume their legal and moral responsibilities towards the crimes inflicted on Palestinians in a manner that would be conducive to holding Israeli war criminals accountable for their atrocities.
He said the international community silence towards the crimes committed against the Palestinian people by apartheid Israeli occupation encourages Israel to continue its violence against, activists journalists, and the Palestine people in general.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation committed three massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, resulting in the killing of 33 civilians and the injury of 145 others. The number of people killed since the start of the Israeli genocide on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, has risen to 40 972. Thousands of victims remain missing; either buried under the rubble or scattered on the roads, as rescue teams face tremendous difficulties in reaching them due to the continued Israeli attacks and the massive amount of debris.
Ambassador Almassri highlighted that the only way to achieve peace and security is through ending the israeli apartheid occupation, recognizing international legitimacy and the right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent state, with Jerusalem as its capital.
