The family of English peace activist Tom Hurndall is experiencing the cold comfort of justice at last. Hurndall, 22, was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper in Rafah about two years ago while moving Palestinian children out of the line of fire. He remained in a coma for nine months before he died.
Justice is difficult to come by in the middle of an illegal military occupation. For some, with the legal and financial resources and freedom to pursue it, there is a slim chance that they might see some limited response. For many others, though, the chance to have the wrongs committed against them addressed will never come.
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By Yossi Sarid
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/596844.html
By its very nature, an army is not designed to issue justice. As we know, an army marches on its stomach, and a stomach is capable of digesting...
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Stephen Farrell Middle East Correspondent of The Times, says that it seems unlikely the Israeli Government or military will learn any lessons from today’s guilty verdicts in the killing of British peace activist Tom Hurndall.
“Mr Hurndall’s father Anthony stood outside the court after the verdicts and said that this soldier...
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Family of young activist look higher up chain of command after Israeli soldier convicted of killing
Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
The Guardian
For Tom Hurndall’s parents, the real criminal is not the Israeli soldier convicted yesterday...
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Regardless of the outcome of today’s verdict on the killing of Tom Hurndall, the International Solidarity Movement, London maintains that justice cannot been served while the culture of impunity in the Israeli army remains intact. Tom was one of hundreds of civilians killed in Rafah alone in the past...
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On the day that the verdict was given in Israel on the killer of Camden resident Tom Hurndall, ISM London held a small action pointing out that systematic Israeli government/military policy is responsible for the...
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By Eric Silver in Jerusalem
Originally published in The Independent
A former Israeli soldier has been found guilty by a military court of shooting dead the British student Tom Hurndall while he acted as a human shield for Palestinian children...
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The ISM acknowledges that though the Israeli military court has found Wahid Taysir guilty of manslaughter it has failed to question the policy and decision makers responsible for Tom’s murder and the murder of thousands of other innocent people.
Tom would want us to remember him. But we also know he’d want us to remember that...
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An aspiring photojournalist and committed peace activist
By Carl Arrindell
Originally published in The Guardian
In the spring of 2002, Tom Hurndall made a journey around Europe, which then took him on to Egypt and Jordan. He was young,...
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