UN calls for investigation, Biden says killing of US activist in West Bank was ‘accidental’ | News

US President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the killing of Turkish-American activist Ayse Nur Ezgi Eci during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank last week was “apparently an accident.”

“It appears to have been an accident. It ricocheted off the ground and hit her by accident,” Biden said, in a statement that came shortly after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on the Israeli military to make “fundamental changes” after the “unjustified” killing of the young woman.

This comes as the United Nations condemned the killing of the Turkish-American activist and called for those responsible for her killing to be held accountable.

“We condemn the killing of Aisha Nour and demand that those responsible be held accountable,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement on Tuesday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, commenting on the killing of the activist by an Israeli sniper, said that this incident “clearly showed that Israel targets even those who support peace.”

The Israeli army killed activist Aisha Nour with live bullets while she was participating in an activity on Friday denouncing settlements in the town of Beita in the Nablus Governorate.

The director of Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, Fouad Nafaa, said that Aisha Nour arrived at the hospital with a bullet wound to the head, where “she underwent resuscitation, but she was martyred.”