(Washington, D.C.; 9/6/2024) – The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) – the nation’s umbrella group of national, regional, and local Muslim associations – along with American Muslims, condemn and protest the Israeli army’s brazen and wanton murder of Turkish American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, today, by a sniper’s shot to her head in the village of Beita near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank during an anti-settlement protest, though she stood far from the action in an olive grove.
“The army was on top of the hill, there was also a sniper on the roof, we were clearly visible, nothing was happening next to us,” said an eyewitness.
“I found her lying on the ground beneath an olive grove, bleeding to death,” said Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak, also a witness.
USCMO Secretary General Oussama Jammal said in a statement today:
“The Biden administration is now claiming, after notice of innocent Eygi’smurder, ‘We have no higher priority than the safety and security of American citizens,’ according to an email statement from U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
“But it cannot be more shamefully apparent that Biden and his administration’s highest priority — toweringly over and above the lives of Americans and this nation’s independence and wellbeing – is ensuring that the supremacist, right-wing, genocidal, colonizing, apartheid Israeli government and its homicidal army have an endless supply of weapons, bombs, and bullets – and a money-syphoning line straight into the pockets of every American – to kill every last Palestinian and all those who support them with impunity and in cold blood.
“The Israelis are murdering Americans in the Holy Land, they are commanding the persecution of Palestinian Americans here at home, and their broad base of U.S. supporters protesting their horrific genocide in Gaza and its expansion into the West Bank, and they are brazenly interfering as a foreign power in U.S. elections and governance.
“Biden, his Vice-President Kamala Harris, and every elected member of Congress must immediately move to bring about a total arms embargo on this Israeli ideological human extermination movement run amok.
“They must immediately end all aid of any sort – military, domestically and internationally illegal colonial settler aid, which is rampant in the U.S. government and in segments of our population, and all U.S. funding – to this colonial outpost whose very DNA is sequenced with genocide, ethnic cleansing, and land theft of the Palestinians, and anyone – like our martyred Aysenur Ezgi Eygi – who dares stand up for the unalienable God-given rights of the Palestinian people.
And this administration must save its own humanity, and that of this nation, and impose an iron-clad ceasefire upon the Israelis everywhere, including no-fly zones over Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, and an imposition against Israeli warmongering in the Middle East.”
We ask God to receive Aysenur Ezgi Eygi with love and honor into His Paradise, comfort the hearts of her bereaved family, and to condole the Muslim American community of which she was a part. Let not her death be in vain.
— PHOTO: Obtained by CNN.
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