[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Gush Shalom] British peace activist shot by IDF - braindead

[Alfred Kagan]

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>After coming home from a good demonstration in support of the 
>increasing number of refusers
>of military service in Israel, we found the terrible news on the 
>Ha'aretz site.
>Another ISM activist shot at and in extreme condition. Tom Hurdell 
>from the UK is in the Jarusi
>hospital in Khan Younes. As soon as we know more we will pass on to 
>you the information.
>
>Ha'aretz: British peace activist shot by IDF troops in Gaza Strip
>
>Israel Defense Forces troops shot a British peace activist working 
>with the International
>Solidarity Movement on Friday, witnesses said.   Doctors said the 
>Briton was brain dead.   The
>activist was standing in between IDF troops and a group of 
>Palestinian children when soldiers
>opened fire, said Khalil Abdullah who works with the 
>Palestinian-backed peace group.   "A
>group of ISM people were trying to set up a small protest tent 
>alongside a road used by the
>army. The soldiers opened fire," said Abdullah, who witnessed the 
>shooting.   The 24-year-old
>Briton was shot in the head and declared brain dead shortly after 
>arriving at the hospital in
>Rafah, where the shooting occurred, according to Dr. Ali Musa. 
>There was no immediate
>comment from the Israeli army.   On March 16, American activist 
>Rachel Corrie, 23, was killed
>while trying to stop an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza 
>Strip. Corrie, a student in Olympia,
>Washington, was the first member of the group to be killed in 30 
>months of fighting between
>Israelis and Palestinians.   The group claimed the bulldozer ran 
>over her and then backed up.
>The army denied the claim and said the operator of the armored 
>bulldozer did not see her.  
>Last week, Israeli troops in an armored personnel carrier allegedly 
>shot Bryan Avery, 24, from
>Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the face. He had been working in the 
>West Bank city of Jenin.
>The army said it was firing at gunmen in
>the area and was not aware it hit Avery.   Activists in the group 
>work in the West Bank and
>Gaza as human shields, often placing themselves between the 
>Palestinians and the Israelis.
>
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