Biden calls IDF’s killing of American in West Bank ‘totally unacceptable’

But US president has still not called for an independent inquiry into the death of protester Ayenur Ezgi Eygi

Joe Biden has described the Israel Defense Force's fatal shooting of the Turkish American protester Ayenur Ezgi Eygi as totally unacceptable" in his first extensive comments on her death.

In a statement on Wednesday, Biden said that Israel had acknowledged responsibility" for Eygi's death, but he stopped short of backing the demands put out by Eygi's family and other human rights advocates for an independent inquiry into the fatal shooting of the American activist at a protest in the West Bank town of Beita last week.