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British ISM Activists Tom Hurndall dies last night of his wounds sustained for 8 months.
George Rishmawi_IMEMCTom Hurndall, a British Peace Activists died last night in London Hospital after almost 8months under life support machines. Hurndall, 22, was shot by an Israeli soldiers in Yebnanear Rafah Camp south of Gaza Strip on April 12 while he was trying to save two Palestinianchildren caught under Israeli fire.
Tom had been in a persistent vegetative state since being shot, and succumbed to pneumonia onTuesday night, the Guardian paper said.
The Soldier who shot Tom is facing several charges. According to Haaretz Israeli dailypaper, the soldier was recently charged with aggravated assault, but the military judgehandling the case told the family's lawyer in Tel Aviv that the charge was likely to berevised to murder or manslaughter after Hurndall's death, it said.
The soldier, who has not been named, has also been charged with obstruction of justice.
The soldier is alleged to have asked for permission to open fire only after having alreadyshot Hurndall, who was critically wounded in the back of his head. He is also alleged to havelied about the incident when questioned about it afterward.
Hurndall is not the only International Peace Activist killed by the Israeli Army. Not longtime before Tom, Rachel Corrie, a 23 American Peace Activist from Olympia Washington wascrushed by a bulldozer in the same area on March 16, 2003. Efforts to open an investigationof her death are met with rejection from Israel.
Hurndall joined the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) on April 5, 2003, one week beforehe was shot. The ISM is a Palestinian Led Organization that conducts and promotes anonviolent resistance to the Israeli Occupation to Palestine through nonviolent directactions organized by Palestinians and Internationals in the occupied in the West Bank andGaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/January/week2/011404/hurndall.htm