I'm an American Activist. Israeli Forces Shot Me
The Sept. 6 killing of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi haunts me because a bullet tore through my leg at the same weekly demonstration a month earlier.
Hasnain says:
“Earlier this year, President Joe Biden said that “if you harm an American, we will respond.” Yet the Biden Administration has not even condemned my attack. The same was true when two weeks prior Americans were bludgeoned by Israeli settlers. And when a Palestinian American teen was shot and killed in the West Bank in January. And when a Palestinian American boy was shot and falsely imprisoned by Israeli forces last December.
A week ago, meters from where I was shot, Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old American activist, was killed at the same weekly protest in Beita. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called her killing “unprovoked and unjustified” after the Israeli military said she was “highly likely” hit by IDF stray fire. Biden and Harris both faced criticism in the days after her death for failing to call Eygi’s family, who say they are “deeply offended by the suggestion” that her killing was “unintentional.” They have called for an independent U.S. investigation. None have been announced.
Had the Biden Administration taken my shooting seriously, Ayşenur might still be with us today.”
Posted on 2024-09-14T06:44:10+0000