According to the report, Turkish American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was shot and killed by Israeli military gunfire in the occupied West Bank while participating in a nonviolent protest. The gunshot caused severe brain trauma.
New information about the killing of Turkish American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was shot and killed by the Israeli military on September 6 in the occupied West Bank, has been made available by a forensic medical report that Anadolu was able to obtain.
According to a report filed by the Palestinian Ministry of Justice, Eygi, 26, was hit by a gunshot to the head while taking part in a peaceful march on Mount Abu Sbeih in Beita, Nablus, by Israeli military forces.
On behalf of the Public Prosecution in Nablus, Dr. Rayyan al-Ali, the head of the Forensic Medicine Institute at an-Najah National University, performed the preliminary external examination at Rafidia Surgical Hospital.
Eygi was taken by ambulance to the hospital on Friday, September 6, 2024, at 2:06 p.m. When help arrived, her pupils were fixed and dilated, and she was in cardiac arrest with no vital signs.
“A gunshot entry wound on the left side of her head, behind the left ear, with brain tissue protruding through the wound,” was found during a preliminary examination.
“At 2:35 p.m., she was pronounced dead despite prompt cardiopulmonary resuscitation and endotracheal intubation.”
“Brain bruises and tears”
A non-contrast CT scan revealed a gunshot wound that penetrated the base of the skull, the medulla oblongata, and the posterior left side of the brain, “with no exit wound or fragments found.”
In addition, the projectile “caused multiple fragments causing random bruises and tears in the brain, subdural hematoma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and pneumocranium.”
After that, the body was moved to the Forensic Medicine Institute at Abu Dhabi National University for additional testing and an autopsy.
Eygi “was in good nutritional and muscular condition,” according to the study.
“Injuries consistent with impact with the ground at the moment of being struck by the projectile were evident from the bruises on the left side of the forehead and lateral aspect of the left eye.”
According to the report, “blood accumulation was noted in the right eye’s upper lid and from the left ear, suggesting fractures to the skull base.”
“Penetrating wound from gunshot”
The forensic investigation stated that Eygi’s death was due to “brain tissue rupture, oedema, and hemorrhage caused by the penetrating gunshot wound.”
“Fragmented and stable, with a trajectory inside the cranial cavity travelling from left to right in a nearly straight path,” was how the projectile was described.
An Israeli sniper opened fire in the occupied West Bank last week, and US President Joe Biden described it as a “accident.”
It looks like it was an accident since she was struck by it as it ricocheted off the ground. “I’m currently figuring that out,” Biden said to reporters on Tuesday.
According to the Israeli army, it is “highly likely” that Eygi was struck by Israeli force fire “indirectly and unintentionally.”
According to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Israel’s killing of Eygi was “unacceptable” and “unprovoked and unjustified.”
Eygi, who was born in 1998 in Antalya, Turkey, received her degree in psychology and Middle Eastern languages and cultures from the University of Washington in June.
Last Tuesday, she traveled to the West Bank, which is under Israeli occupation, to serve as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, which works to protect and assist Palestinian farmers.
