Israeli Strike in Syria's Quneitra Kills Two

The Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle on the Damascus-Quneitra road. AFP
The Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle on the Damascus-Quneitra road. AFP
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Israeli Strike in Syria's Quneitra Kills Two

The Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle on the Damascus-Quneitra road. AFP
The Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle on the Damascus-Quneitra road. AFP

A Syria war monitor said an Israeli airstrike on Thursday in Quneitra province in the Syria-controlled Golan Heights killed two people, days after major raids elsewhere in the country.

"An Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle" on the Damascus-Quneitra road, "killing two people," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, without identifying them.

A local security source told AFP that "two charred bodies were removed" from the vehicle that was hit.

The Israeli army did not immediately comment on the reported strike.

Thursday's strike came days after raids blamed on Israel killed 18 people in the central province of Hama, according to Syrian authorities.

The Observatory said those strikes killed 27 people, including six civilians, and targeted a "scientific research area" and other sites in the province's Masyaf area.



Türkiye Probes Killing of Turkish-American Activist in West Bank

FILE - This undated family photo provided by the International Solidarity Movement on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, shows Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. (Courtesy of the Eygi family/International Solidarity Movement via AP, File)
FILE - This undated family photo provided by the International Solidarity Movement on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, shows Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. (Courtesy of the Eygi family/International Solidarity Movement via AP, File)
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Türkiye Probes Killing of Turkish-American Activist in West Bank

FILE - This undated family photo provided by the International Solidarity Movement on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, shows Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. (Courtesy of the Eygi family/International Solidarity Movement via AP, File)
FILE - This undated family photo provided by the International Solidarity Movement on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, shows Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. (Courtesy of the Eygi family/International Solidarity Movement via AP, File)

Türkiye’s justice minister said Thursday his country is investigating the death of a Turkish-American activist shot and killed by Israeli forces last week while protesting settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The 26-year-old activist from Seattle was taking part in a demonstration against settlements in the Palestinian territory when she was fatally shot last Friday. Israel is investigating the killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi and its military later said she was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by soldiers.

Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said that the Ankara chief prosecutor’s office was leading the Turkish probe. He also called on UN agencies, including the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, to investigate.

Tunc said Türkiye would present its findings to a UN court overseeing a genocide case against Israel filed by South Africa over the war in Gaza.

“We will take every judicial step for our martyred daughter, Aysenur,” Tunc said.
Meanwhile, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Eygi’s body was likely to be brought to Türkiye on Friday. Her burial is scheduled to take place in the Aegean coastal town of Didim, in western Türkiye, in line with her family’s wishes.