The Israeli regime’s forces have blocked off the whereabouts of the death of a Turkish-American activist, who was killed by the Israeli military last week while protesting the regime’s illegal settlement construction activities.

Reporting on Friday, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency said the forces had placed military checkpoints at intersections in the town of Beita, south of the city of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Mahmoud Barham, head of the Beita Municipal Council, said the troops would prevent Palestinians from crossing the intersections to reach Mount Sabih, where the atrocity had taken place.

The activist, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, was killed last Friday while protesting alongside locals in Beita against the settlement of Evyatar.

An autopsy report confirmed that the 26-year-old had been killed by an Israeli sniper’s bullet to the head, Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas said on Saturday.

The Israeli military has alleged that Aysenur was killed during an effort by the forces to quell a “riot.”

Available footage of the protest as well as numerous witness accounts, however, contradict the claim.

The United Nations has called for investigation of the crime.

“I can tell you that we would want to see a full investigation of the circumstances and that people should be held accountable,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at a news conference following the activist’s death.

According to Wafa, Aysenur is one of 17 people who have been killed since the Evyatar settlement’s emergence in 2021.

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