What do you do with the clothes your wife was wearing when she was killed, now stained with her blood? How do you preserve them as evidence for an investigation that may never happen? What else can you do when your government has given no indication that it will hold her killer — a soldier in the army of a close ally — accountable, despite three months of daily efforts to get basic answers?

My wife, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, was shot in the head and killed by an Israeli soldier on Sept. 6, 2024, while peacefully standing under an olive tree in the occupied West Bank. Although the Biden administration has described her death as unprovoked and unjustified, it has yet to apply adequate pressure on Israel to seek justice for the killing of one of its citizens.

I will likely leave my wife’s bloody clothes in the box in which they came, deciding instead to keep our closet untarnished and full of warm memories. It is full of the outfits she wore during long hours spent with friends, on walks with her father, and visits with her niece, nephew, sister and brother-in-law. I can mentally piece together the outfits she wore on our wedding day, on our first date, and when I first saw her.

I was 26 when we........

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