Zionists Kill Another Peace Activist

A British peace activist was shot on 11 April 2003 by Israeli soldiers in Rafah, Gaza Strip. The 22-year-old Thomas Hurndall was shot in the head and declared brain dead shortly after his arrival at Rafah hospital.
The peace activist was a member of the International Solidarity Movement. He was killed while trying to protect a group of Palestinian children, standing between the children and the IDF troops.
The Briton is the third international peace activist in less than one month that the Israeli army attempted to murder. On March 16, the 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie was killed by a bulldozer in her struggle to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian home in Rafah. On April 5, Bryan Avery, 24, from New Mexico was shot in the face in Jenin where he was working as a human shield. Avery survived but was badly injured. Corrie and Avery were both members of the International Solidarity Movement.

From Rachel Corrie’s Letters

“The vast majority of people here – even if they had the economic means to escape, even if they actually wanted to give up resisting on their land and just leave (which appears to be maybe the less nefarious of Sharon’s possible goals), can’t leave. Because they can’t even get into Israel to apply for visas, and because their destination countries won’t let them in (both our country and Arab countries). So I think when all means of survival is cut off in a pen (Gaza) which people can’t get out of, I think that qualifies as genocide. Even if they could get out, I think it would still qualify as genocide. This is not at all what I asked for when I came into this world.This is not the world you and Dad wanted me to come into when you decided to have me..... a world where I could live a comfortable life and possibly, with no effort at all, exist in complete unawareness of my participation in genocide.
Coming here is one of the better things I’ve ever done. So when I sound crazy, or if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white people, please pin the reason squarely on the fact that I am in the midst of a genocide which I am also indirectly supporting, and for which my government is largely responsible.”