{"id":4423,"date":"2008-10-13T05:13:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T10:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2008-10-13T05:13:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T10:13:55","slug":"kate-kellaway-they-shot-our-son-but-they-cant-kill-his-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4423","title":{"rendered":"Kate Kellaway: They shot our son but they can’t kill his spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Hurndall, 21, was a young, compassionate man when he went to Gaza in 2003. Months later, while he was rescuing Palestinian children from gunfire, he was shot by an Israeli army sniper. On the eve of a Channel 4 film, his parents tell of their anger, loss, intense grief and political awakening as they sought to bring his killer to justice<\/p>\n

Kate Kellaway, The Observer<\/em>, 12 October 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Anthony and Jocelyn Hurndall, accompanied by a guide, see the location where their son Tom was shot in the southern Gaza strip in April 2003. He was hit by Israeli gunfire as he tried to help Palestinian children across a street. Photograph: Reuters <\/p><\/div>This story begins with an ending. On 11 April 2003, Thomas Hurndall, a 21-year-old photojournalist, was shot in the head in Gaza by a sniper from the Israeli army.<\/p>\n

Tom was a brilliant, intrepid young man, driven by an energetic morality, a wish to make a difference in the world. The shooting left him with unsurvivable brain damage, but he clung to life – against the odds – in a coma, for nine months.<\/p>\n

While he lay dying in Tel Aviv and later in the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London, his parents, Anthony and Jocelyn Hurndall, took on a heroic struggle against the Israeli army. They were determined to seek truth and accountability at all costs. They had no idea how hard this was going to be.<\/p>\n

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