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00:00Palestinian paramedics transported her to hospital to try and save her.
00:05The 26-year-old rights activist, Eysanur Ezgiyegi, a dual U.S. and Turkish national, was taking
00:11part in a protest against Israeli settlements in the village of Beita near Nablus.
00:17Another activist at the protest described what he saw.
00:21At some point we heard gunfire, we looked to the back and we saw that Ayla is shot in
00:30the head.
00:31She wasn't responding and an ambulance came and evacuated her to Rafidiyah Hospital in
00:37Nablus.
00:38The head of the hospital said she arrived in critical condition with a gunshot in the
00:42head and was later pronounced dead.
00:48We were trying to save her life but unfortunately we could not do that.
00:53We lost her.
00:55We lost her because of a severe injury.
00:58We lost her.
01:01The Israeli military said it responded with fire toward a main instigator of violent activity
01:06who hurled rocks at the forces and posed a threat to them, and added it was looking into
01:10reports that a foreign citizen was killed by gunfire.
01:15The Turkish foreign ministry said it condemned what it described as a murder committed by
01:19the Netanyahu government.
01:21Washington, meanwhile, said it was deeply disturbed by the killing and called on Israel
01:25to investigate.
01:26We deplore this tragic loss.
01:29Now, the most important thing to do is to gather the facts and that's exactly what we're
01:35in the process of doing.
01:37And we are intensely focused on getting those facts and any actions that we take are driven
01:44by the facts.
01:45The Turkish U.S. activist was a member of the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian
01:51organization.
01:53It holds weekly demonstrations against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which under
01:57international law are illegal.