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We Remember: Tom Hurndall

Posted on: January 13, 2012
(27 November 1981 – 13 January 2004)

13 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement
Tom was 21 years old when he was shot. A photography student, he had left the UK to volunteer as a ‘human shield’ in Iraq. Here he heard about the ISM, one of whose volunteers, Rachel Corrie, had just been killed by a bulldozer whilst protesting house demolitions in Rafah. He headed there himself, arriving on the 6th April.
On the day of his shooting, Tom was with other ISM activists walking through Rafah when Israeli sniper fire started. Almost everyone ran for safety, but Tom noticed that three children, aged … Continue reading


Updated on January 15, 2012
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Early release of Tom Hurndall’s killer symptom of wider Israeli crimes

Posted on: September 8, 2010
Tom in Gaza shortly before he was shot

8 September 2010 | ISM London

UPDATE:

Tom’s Killer was released this morning. The Hurndall family was not informed by any representative of the Israeli government. The British Foreign Office did contact Jocelyn this morning, but not before the news had reached her via ISM London. We are re-publishing our press release from July as our statement today.

20 July 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) condemns the early release from prison of the Israeli soldier that murdered photography student and ISM volunteer Tom Hurndall in Gaza in 2003. The Israeli press yesterday reported that Taysir Hayb will … Continue reading


Updated on September 8, 2010
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Early release of Tom Hurndall’s killer symptom of wider Israeli crimes

Posted on: July 20, 2010
Tom shortly before he was shot

20 July 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Correction appended

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) condemns the early release from prison of the Israeli soldier that murdered photography student and ISM volunteer Tom Hurndall in Gaza in 2003. The Israeli press yesterday reported that Taysir Hayb will be released three years early from an already short eight-year sentence.

His murder was only a symptom of a much wider culture of impunity in the Israeli army. This early release serves to … Continue reading


Updated on July 21, 2010
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IDF soldier who shot British peace activist to be released from jail

Posted on: July 19, 2010

Anshel Pfeffer | Ha’aretz

19 July 2010

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 early from prison next month.

Taysir-al-Heib was sentenced in 2005 to eight years in prison for manslaughter as well as obstruction of justice and giving false testimony. The decision to shorten his sentence was made by an army committee, against the advice of Military Advocate General Brig. Gen. Avichai Mendelblit.

Hurndall, a 22-year-old student, was shot in the head in April 2003 as he was photographing the work … Continue reading


Updated on July 19, 2010
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7th Anniversary of the shooting of Thomas Hurndall

Posted on: April 11, 2010
Tom shortly before he was shot

International Solidarity Movement

11th April 2010

The 11th April marks the seventh anniversary of the ultimately fatal shooting of British ISM activist, Thomas Hurndall. Tom was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper in Rafah, Gaza, whilst attempting to move two young girls out of the line of fire. He went in to a coma, and died in hospital 9 months later, on the 13th January 2004.

Tom was 21 years old when he was shot. A photography student, he had left the UK to volunteer as a … Continue reading


Updated on April 11, 2010
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Guardian: Rachel Corrie’s family bring civil suit over death in Gaza

Posted on: February 23, 2010
Peace activist Rachel Corrie died while protesting in front of a bulldozer trying to destroy a Palestinian home in Rafah in March 2003. Photograph: Denny Sternstein/AP

Rory McCarthy | The Guardian

23 February 2010

The family of the American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago, is to bring a civil suit over her death against the Israeli defence ministry.

The case, which begins on 10 March in Haifa, northern Israel, is seen by her parents as an opportunity to put on public record the events that led to their daughter’s death in March 2003. Four key witnesses – three Britons and an American – who were at the scene … Continue reading


Updated on February 24, 2010
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Gaza Freedom March: Palestinian Non-violence and International Solidarity

Posted on: December 17, 2009

Max Ajl | MR Zine

16 December 2009

I’m going to discuss the utility of non-violent resistance as it applies to resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict and, specifically, the occupation and blockade of the Gaza strip. Even more specifically, I’m going to discuss the Gaza Freedom March (GFM), of which I’m one of the organizers. But before discussing Palestinian non-violence, several things must be clarified. One is that no one — least of all me, a Jewish kid from Brooklyn — has the slightest right to dictate to the Palestinians how to end the blockade or resist the occupation. Another is the … Continue reading


Updated on December 17, 2009
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Soldier who killed UK peace activist deemed ineligible for parole

Posted on: June 3, 2009

Hanan Greenberg | YNet News

2 June 2009

Israel Defense Forces soldier Taysir Hayb, who was convicted of the manslaughter of British peace activist Tom Hurndall in Gaza in 2003, will remain in jail despite having served two-thirds of his sentence, which should have made him eligible for parole.

Hurndall was shot in the head during a demonstration in Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Military Prosecution stated Tuesday that it objected to Hayb’s early release for fears it might exacerbate tensions between Israel’s and the UK.

After serving five-and-a-half years of his sentence, Hayb told a committee headed by Jaffa … Continue reading


Updated on June 3, 2009
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Commemoration of Tom Hurndall’s shooting

Posted on: April 23, 2009
Tom Hurndall playing football in Amman refugee camp

22 April 2009

April 11th 2009 marked the 6th anniversary of the shooting of British ISM activist Tom Hurndall by Israeli occupation soldiers that lead to his death 9 months later. It wasn’t possible for ISM volunteers to enter the Gaza Strip for several years due to the clampdown of the Erez crossing, so this was the first time ISM activists managed to commemorate the anniversary in Gaza itself.

Last October, in the occasion of the release of a new television drama based on the killing in Gaza of Tom Hurndall (’The Shooting Of Thomas Hurndall’, Channel Four Television), Amnesty International has … Continue reading


Updated on April 23, 2009
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The Independent: A brave man who stood alone. If only the world had listened to him

Posted on: March 31, 2009
The Independent: A brave man who stood alone. If only the world had listened to him

Robert Fisk

I don’t know if I met Tom Hurndall. He was one of a bunch of “human shields” who turned up in Baghdad just before the Anglo-American invasion in 2003, the kind of folk we professional reporters make fun of. Tree huggers, that kind of thing. Now I wish I had met him because – looking back over the history of that terrible war – Hurndall’s journals (soon to be published) show a remarkable man of remarkable principle. “I may not be a human shield,” he wrote at 10.26 on … Continue reading


Updated on March 31, 2009
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