Tom Hurndall

At an Israeli checkpoint the army states that it came under fire from Palestinian militants and returned fire, causing Hurndall's group of nine activists to ... A British peace activist cries for help as she holds her hand over the headwound of Tom Hurndall, who had been shot in the head moments earlier, Friday, ...

On Friday April 11, Tom Hurndall and a group of activists were in the area, having planned to set up a peace tent on one of the nearby roads to block Israeli tank patrols. At an Israeli checkpoint the army states that it came under fire from Palestinian militants and returned fire, causing Hurndall's group of nine ...

January 13th, 2017 marks the 13th anniversary of British ISM activist, Tom Hurndall's, death. He was shot in the head by Israeli forces in Gaza, while working with other ISM members to peacefully protest the shooting by Israeli forces in the Yibna district of Rafah. Human Rights Watch interviewed witnesses ...

A poll last August by the Israeli Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University indicated that 65% of Israel's Jewish majority supported his actions. A seemingly contradictory finding in ... The last was 11 years ago when one was found guilty of killing Tom Hurndall, a British pro-Palestinian activist. Human-rights ...

Image: A foreign peace activist (C) joins Palestinian protesters for a demonstration marking the anniversary of the death of US peace activist Rachel Corrie (poster), who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003, at a refugee camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 16 March 2013. (AFP).

In 2003, photography student Tom Hurndall joined first the Human Shields project in Iraq and later the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine. On 11 April that year, while rescuing two Palestinian children from Israeli gunfire in Rafah, Gaza, he was shot in the head by Israeli army sniper Taysir Hayb.

Tom Hurndall had stayed in Rafah. He was only 21 when – in his mother's words – he lost his life through a single, selfless, human act. "Tom was shot in the head as he carried a single Palestinian child out of the range of an Israeli army sniper." He was a brave man who stood alone and showed more ...

Mr Hurndall was, in fact, wearing an orange coat identifying him as a foreign activist. Although he had originally taken cover when the Israeli firing began, he returned to open ground to rescue a group of children who had been playing when the shooting started. He rescued one child, but when he returned ...

A former IDF soldier who was found guilty of manslaughter in the 2003 shooting death of British peace activist Thomas Hurndall in the Gaza Strip will be released ... In his investigation, Heib initially claimed he had fired on an armed Palestinian, enlisting supporting testimony from another soldier in his unit.

A former Israeli soldier has been found guilty of the manslaughter of British student Tom Hurndall in the Gaza Strip. Ex-sergeant Taysir Hayb was convicted at a ... Mr Hurndall, 22, was involved in protests against the Israeli military in the Palestinian town of Rafah. He died nine months after the shooting.