RAMALLAH: According to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes, the occupation forces target Palestinians and foreign activists who show solidarity with them.
It said foreign activists are subjected to harassment by the Israeli occupation forces that amount to crimes. The Media Observatory said it documented several violations, the most prominent of which was the killing of the American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi.
The report added on September 6, 2024, the occupation forces killed the activist Aysenur with a direct bullet to the head, which led to her immediate death, while she was taking part in a peaceful march against settler attacks in the village of Beita in Nablus.
It noted that on September 5, 2024, a number of settlers also attacked a foreign activist by spraying pepper gas on his face, causing him to suffocate, while he was confronting settlers who had attacked a Palestinian family in the Al-Faw area in the northern Jordan Valley in Tubas.
It said on August 22, 2024, settlers attacked three foreign activists, including a French journalist, while they were participating in a peaceful march in Beit Jala against settler raids on Palestinian villages.
A foreign journalist named Brendan Raines was also assaulted by settlers in the town of Al-Auja in the Jericho and Jordan Valley Governorate while documenting settlers’ attacks on water sources in the town.
The report added the murder of Aysenur is not the first crime committed by the occupation forces, as activist Rachel Corrie was also killed under the wheels of an Israeli bulldozer when she confronted the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip on March 6, 2003.
It added Israeli occupation basically wants to prevent journalists from carrying out the tasks of documenting the crimes of the occupation.
The report said that the number of Israeli occupation attacks which started on October 7, 2023, until September 7, 2024, have reached 2046 attacks that affected most of the villages and towns of the West Bank and occupied al-Quds.
