From Occupied Palestine

'My son lived a worthwhile life'
EMINE SANER
Guardian, 26 March 2007

In April 2003, 21-year old Tom Hurndall was shot in the head in Gaza by an Israeli soldier as he tried to save the lives of three small children. Nine months later, he died, having never recovered consciousness. Emine Saner talks to his mother Jocelyn about her grief, her fight to make the Israeli army accountable for his death and the book she has written in his memory.

'Let me fight my monsters'
KATHARINE VINER
Guardian, 8 April 2005

Two years ago Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American protester, was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza. Since then she has become a potent symbol for both sides of the conflict. But who was the real Rachel? KATHARINE VINER, who has edited her writings for a new play, on an ordinary woman with an extraordinary passion

Soldier who shot Briton admits lying
CHRIS McGREAL
Guardian, 16 December 2004

Jerusalem -- The Israeli soldier on trial for killing the British peace activist Tom Hurndall in the Gaza Strip has admitted he was lying when he said his victim was carrying a gun, but said he was under orders to open fire even on unarmed people.

IDF detains three BBC journalists in Nablus
YOAV STERN
Ha'aretz, 12 August 2004

Israel Defense Forces troops in the West Bank city of Nablus detained three British Broadcasting Corporation journalists and a Palestinian doctor at gunpoint for three hours Thursday before letting them go, BBC officials and the doctor said.

ISM activists use Birthright program to get to Israel
DAPHNA BERMAN
Ha'aretz, 16 July 2004

Max, a volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement and a student at Bir Zeit University, is hardly a poster child for birthright israel - a program that offers young Jews a free trip to Israel in an effort to strengthen Jewish identity and a connection with the Jewish state.

A Journey to Rafah
"We will destroy you, if not in death then in life"
JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN
Counterpunch, 28 March 2004

The Gaza Strip is far more than a prison. One need only spend time in Khan Yunis or Bureij, Jabalia or Nuseirat, Gaza City or Beit Hanoun to recognize the flaw in the prison analogy. In Gaza you are more than an inmate in a giant penitentiary. You are a walking human target, shadowed by hired killers who can destroy you and your surroundings at will. Your home belongs to bulldozers and dynamite, your cities and refugee camps to F-16s and helicopter gun ships. In Gaza your livelihood is diminished each day by an impoverishment that is as deliberate as it is merciless. There is neither escape from desperation nor refuge from terror. Nowhere is this more evident than in Rafah.

Met to oversee Hurndall inquiry
CHRIS McGREAL and COLIN BLACKSTOCK
Guardian, 16 January 2004

The Metropolitan police have been asked to oversee the investigation into the death of Tom Hurndall, the British peace activist shot by an Israeli soldier as he tried to protect Palestinian children in a Gaza refugee camp.

Westminster coroner Paul Knapman has asked the Met to help in establishing the facts surrounding the shooting of Mr Hurndall, who died on Tuesday morning after being in a persistent vegetative state for nine months.

Another turn of the spiral: Tom Hurndall's death and the ongoing destruction of Palestine
JUSTIN PODUR
Znet, 15 January 2004

Tom Hurndall died on January 13, 2004 at 7:45pm, in a hospital in his country, the UK, after spending over 8 months in a coma.

Military police arrest soldier who shot Briton in Rafah
AMOS HAREL
Ha'aretz, 31 December 2003

Military police arrested several days ago and have interrogated the Israel Defense Force soldier suspected of shooting and seriously wounded British civilian Tom Hurndall in Rafah last April.

Hurndall is now a vegetable and his family has begun proceedings allowing him to eventually be disconnected from respiratory and other life-support systems.

Israeli forces opened fire on two peace activists
ARJAN EL FASSED
Electronic Intifada, 26 October 2003

An Australian and American peace activist were shot in the legs at Balata refugee camp and were taken to Rafidia Hospital where they are undergoing treatment. Within hours of the shooting, the Arab news channel Al-Jazeera released details, but witheld the identities of the injured until their families could be contacted.