ANKARA

Jordan's Foreign Ministry on Friday demanded that those responsible for the murder of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi be held accountable.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist, was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Friday during a protest against illegal Israeli settlements in the town of Beita, near Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank.

In a statement, the ministry strongly condemned Eygi's killing, describing it as a "heinous crime that requires holding those responsible accountable."

It added that the killing of Eygi is a continuation of Israel's crimes against Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Fouad Nafaa, the director of the Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, told Anadolu that Eygi arrived at the hospital with a gunshot wound to the head. She succumbed to her injuries despite medical teams’ efforts to revive her, according to Nafaa.

Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli soldiers opened live fire on a group of Palestinians participating in a demonstration condemning the illegal settlements on Mount Sbeih in Beita, which lies south of the city of Nablus.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa confirmed that the victim was a volunteer with the Fazaa campaign, an initiative aimed at supporting and protecting Palestinian farmers from ongoing violations by illegal Israeli settlers and the military.

Beita residents hold protests after weekly Muslim Friday prayers in congregation to oppose the illegal Israeli settlement of Avitar, which sits atop Mount Sbeih. The community demands that the settlement be removed because it violates their land rights.

Eygi was born in the Turkish city of Antalya in 1998.