TEHRAN - Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, an American-Turkish human rights activist, was shot dead in the head by the Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank town of Beita, south of Nablus, on Friday.

Eygi, 26, had been involved in a campaign to protect farmers from Israeli settler violence, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The story of Eygi reminds people in the world about the tragic fates of peace activists Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American citizen, and Tom Hurndall, a 22-year-old British photojournalist. They both were shot dead in the Gaza Strip some two decades ago. 

The three peace activists were volunteers from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), an association established to resist the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands through commitment to nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.

Rachel Corrie was crushed by a bulldozer in Rafah in March 2003 while she was trying to stop a Palestinian home from being destroyed.  Tom Hurndall was also shot in the head by an Israeli sniper in April 2003 and died in January 2004 after being in a coma for nine months.

Israel sees no limit to committing crimes. On Friday, the occupation forces also killed in cold blood a 13-year-old girl named Bana Amjad Bakr in the heart in a village south of Nablus. The girl was shot dead while looking out of a window at her family’s home.

An activist who was with Eygi told Middle East Eye she and other volunteers from the ISM had been attending the weekly demonstration at Beita.

The activist said they retreated from soldiers, who had shot tear gas into the crowd. Then two rounds of live ammunition were fired at the group, the activist said, one of which struck Eygi in the head.

"When she was shot, she was standing there doing absolutely nothing with one other woman - it was a deliberate shot because they shot from a very, very, very far distance," said the activist, who did not want to be identified.

The family also said video showed she was killed by a bullet from an Israeli military shooter.

By killing Eygi, Corrie, and Hurndall, Israel has been trying to frighten any foreigner who intends to visit the occupied lands to defend the Palestinians. It deliberately kills human rights activists no matter even if they are from the U.S. and Britain, which have been shipping arms to Israel to massacre Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October last year.