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Seven Days After Israeli Forces Kill American, Biden and Harris Haven’t Spoken to Victim’s Family

And any Israeli “investigation” apparently hasn’t even reached out to other eyewitnesses.

Prem ThakkerSep 13, 2024

One week has passed since US-backed Israeli forces shot and killed 26-year-old US citizen Ayşenur Eygi as she demonstrated against US-condemned illegal settlement activity in the West Bank. And the White House has still not reached out to the victim’s family....

“No one from the investigation has contacted us,” said Vivi, a volunteer with Faz3a, a group leading a campaign to provide protective presence to Palestinians against illegal Israeli settler activity. “So, it’s a bit frustrating, because what kind of investigation are you doing if you aren’t even talking to the people who are right next to her when she was killed.”

“No one from the State Department or anyone back in America has contacted us,” she added.

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Shortly after, Biden toldreporters: "Apparently it was an accident, ricocheted off the ground and just got hit by accident. I'm working that out now,” going even further than the Israeli military’s already-spurious claim.

Implicit in the Israeli military’s Biden-echoed claim was that they were indeed shooting gunfire into the crowd, but somehow didn’t hit their intended target. But footage reported by the Washington Post shows that the Israeli military shot Eygi more than 30 minutes after the peak of confrontations between demonstrators and Israeli soldiers, some 20 minutes after demonstrators moved down the road over 200 yards away from Israeli forces.

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Given how little it has actually been held accountable for alleged war crimes — including the killing of Americans — the Israeli government has seemed to proffer weaker and weaker stories behind their violent acts. After all, the Israeli military has killed numerous Americans including teenagers Mohammad Khdour & Tawfic Abdel Jabbar; World Central Kitchen worker Jacob Flickinger; 78-year-old Omar Assad; journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh; peace activist Rachel Corrie; and more. And they’ve faced no consequence for any of it.

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When Zeteoasked the State Department about the parallels between the US’s posture on Rajab and Eygi they said they would “do everything we can to ascertain and gather whatever information is required.”