American woman killed at pro-Palestinian protest in West Bank

An American woman was shot and killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, the U.S. State Department confirmed.

Palestinian doctor Dr. Ward Basalat told The Associated Press that the 26-year-old woman, identified by the State Department as Aysenur Eygi, was shot in the head and died after arriving at the hospital.

Witnesses, activists and Palestinian media said she was shot by Israeli troops while attending a pro-Palestinian demonstration against settlement expansion in the Nablus area of the northern West Bank, near the town of Beita. Israel's military said it was still looking into the incident, but it confirmed that troops had opened fire in the area.

The IDF said it was "looking into reports that a foreign national was killed as a result of shots fired in the area" and that the "details of the incident and the circumstances in which she was hit are under review."

Jonathan Pollak, with the Defend Palestine activist group, told CBS News that IDF forces fired two shots from a distance of 150 or 200 yards during the protest attended by the American woman.

He said the first bullet hit a local boy in the thigh and the second hit the U.S. demonstrator, who was standing under an olive tree.