For Immediate Release
Contact: Valentina Pereda, Communications Director, [email protected]
Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org | September 6, 2024 – The killing of a 26-year-old American citizen and human rights activist by Israeli Occupation Forces today in the occupied West Bank is a horrific, yet preventable, tragedy. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was protecting Palestinian farmers during a protest against the illegal theft of Palestinian land in Nablus. Eygi joins a growing list of U.S. citizens killed by the apartheid Israeli regime, adding to the horrific crimes that are a direct result of Israeli impunity facilitated and empowered by the United States.
ADC National Executive Director Abed Ayoub said, “We are heartbroken by the devastation over the loss of Aysenur, and we send our heartfelt condolences and prayers to the family. For decades, Israel has been killing Palestinians and U.S. citizens without consequence, exposing the hypocrisy and double standards of U.S. rule of law, our politicians, and the media. The same voices that outcried the death of an Israeli soldier with U.S. citizenship held captive in Gaza remain silent when other U.S. citizens, all civilians, are executed by Israeli forces.”
There has been no similar condemnation or calls for accountability for the brutal killing of Rachel Corrie, an American run over by an Israeli bulldozer while protecting a Palestinian home from demolition in 2003, or the assassination of world-renowned Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, or the killing of Omar Assad, Orwa Hammad, Jurkan Dogan, Mahmoud Shaalan, Tawfiq Abdel Jabbar, Mohammad Khdour – to name a few. All U.S. citizens killed by Israeli forces.
More than 650 Palestinians in the West Bank, and over 150,000 Palestinians have been estimated killed in Gaza since October 2023. As the ADC has demanded from the start: The Biden Administration must impose a weapons embargo on Israel, and we call on them to publicly commit to securing real justice for all Americans killed by the Israeli regime.
About ADC
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is the largest Arab American grassroots organization in the U.S., founded in 1980 by former Senator James Abourezk. ADC’s mission is to defend and promote the human rights, civil rights, and liberties of the millions of Arab Americans residing in the United States. Through its work, the ADC fights discrimination in the U.S., enhances public understanding of Arab history and culture, and partners with marginalized communities globally to advance social justice.