Human rights activist Jonathan Pollak called for an independent investigation to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against Palestinians, and to bring justice to Turkish-American activist Aisha Nur Ege, who was shot dead by the Israeli occupation army while participating in a peaceful demonstration in the West Bank.
“We need an independent investigation, because it will be an important first step towards ensuring accountability,” said Jonathan, who was with Aisha during her martyrdom, stressing that as activists, they do not want Israel to investigate Aisha’s assassination.
In a statement to Tel Aviv Tribune, he demanded that pressure be put on Israel to “immediately end the genocide it is practicing in the Gaza Strip and the colonial system it is adopting in the region.”
He considered that what happened to Aisha happened in other areas of the occupied Palestinian territories, as the Israeli forces are constantly suppressing protests, stressing that Israel wants to send a message through bullets and bullets towards the head, that it does not accept the world’s solidarity with the Palestinians.
The human rights activist pledged to continue supporting the Palestinians and joining them in their struggle to achieve their freedom. He said that activists who support the Palestinians will be with them in all their locations, in the West Bank, in the 1948 territories, or in the prisons of torture and humiliation.
He sent a message to the Palestinians, saying: “You deserve freedom, regardless of the extent of Israeli targeting of us.”
He also stressed that Aisha was not only killed in a criminal incident, but was killed in Palestine while she was standing with the Palestinian people. He said that the child Bana Bakr (13 years old) was martyred on the same day near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Aisha Nour (26 years old) was killed by Israeli soldiers while participating in a demonstration against settlements in the town of Beita in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank. Her body was buried today in her hometown in the Didim district of the Turkish province of Aydin.
The occupation admitted to killing the Turkish-American activist, stressing that it is “very likely” that its soldiers’ fire killed Aisha Nour “indirectly and unintentionally while targeting the main instigator of the riot,” according to its claim.
