"The U.S. cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the illegal actions of the extremist Israeli government," the senator said.

Days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken signaled that there would be no U.S. inquiry into Israel’s killing of Turkish American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi in the occupied West Bank last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday called on the Department of Justice to open an investigation of the young campaigner’s death.

Sanders noted that both U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, both called for “full accountability” for Eygi’s killers.

“Let’s be clear: There will be no accountability if the United States defers to the extremist Israeli government to investigate its own actions,” he said in a statement.