https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/9/us-not-probing-killing-of-its-citizen-aysenur-eygi-in-west-bank-officialsUS not probing killing of its citizen Aysenur Eygi in West Bank: Officials
US spokesperson warns against ‘conflating’ killing of American-Israeli captive in Gaza with shooting of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi.
Officials in the United States have said that Washington still does not “know with full certainty what transpired” when a US citizen was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank last week, stressing that they were waiting for the findings of an Israeli investigation.
The US on Monday also appeared to reject calls for an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel declined to acknowledge that Eygi was killed by an Israeli soldier, but he called for the process to “play out and for the facts to be gathered”.
He also urged Israel to “quickly and robustly conduct” its probe and make the findings public but confirmed the administration is not planning to independently investigate the killing — as Eygi’s family requested.
“We are working closely to ascertain the facts, but there is not a State Department-led investigation that is going on,” Patel said at a press briefing on Monday.
