"Eygi"s family in the US released a statement saying “we are deeply offended by the suggestion that her killing by a trained sniper was in any way unintentional" WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Israel’s killing of a US-Turkish activist during a protest in the occupied West Bank last week appeared to have been an accident. “Apparently it was an accident — it ricocheted off the ground, and she got hit by accident,” Biden told reporters, hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the killing was “unprovoked and unjustified.”