I visited Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi’s grave two months after she was murdered by Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Beita. It is easy to feel hopeless as the U.S. government ignores her killing, but Palestinians don’t, and neither should we.

Following a year of rising settler attacks on the people of Beita and the death of Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, the West Bank village is keeping civil resistance alive in the face of the threat of Israeli colonial land grabs.

Palestinians in Nablus held a funeral procession for a Turkish-American activist killed by Israeli forces in Beita. Meanwhile, Israel continued to close its borders with Jordan for the second day in a row following a shooting at Allenby bridge.

26-year-old Aysenur Eygi was shot and killed by Israeli forces while attending a West Bank protest in the West Bank village of Beita near Nablus.

The Israeli assault on Palestinians continues to intensify as Israel has arrested at least 42 people across the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the last three days and carried out a military invasion of Ramallah.

Armed with assault rifles and other weapons, thousands of Israeli settlers took over the streets of the northern occupied West Bank this week to declare: this land belongs to us and we want all of it. 

The recent attacks on Al-Aqsa, the continued arrests and assassinations of resistance fighters, and the settler march on Sbeih Mountain point to a renewed commitment to the original Zionist ethos. This will inevitably lead to wide-ranging confrontation.

Israeli forces killed six Palestinians across the occupied West Bank between Wednesday and Thursday, including at least one minor, bringing the Palestinian death toll since Sunday to ten.

During an arrest raid in Nablus city, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man in the head, killing him, and reportedly injured two others after running them over with a military jeep. Three days prior, the army shot and killed another Palestinian man in Beita.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank town of Beita have been struggling to access their land for the olive harvest due to the Israeli military’s continued occupation of Jabal Sabih. “No matter what, we will not leave this land,” Beita resident Ammar Hamayel tells Mondoweiss. “We grew up here, we learned here what it means to be Palestinian and what the land means to us. I will not leave here until my soul leaves my body.”