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When killing is easy

In April an English peace campaigner was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper while trying to move children who were being shot at while playing. Thomas Hurndall was in Palestine photographing evidence of Human Rights abuses by Israeli soldiers and is now in a coma in an Israeli hospital. Tonight there is a documentary on BBC 2 When Killing is Easy that investigates this and the killings of cameraman James Miller and American Rachel Corrie.

Update!

13th January 2004.
Tom Hurndall died in hospital from pneumonia having never awoken from the coma.

Israeli authorities say that the sniper is likley to face manslaughter charges.

Posted by Simon at November 2, 2003 9:16 AM

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Comments

1 November 5, 2003 10:29 AM L. Panther

Congratulations on broadcasting "When the killing is easy". If anything it went too far in trying to find a justification for the IDF's inexcusable breaches of human rights, and not far enough in showing the intolerable hardships of Israeli military occupation.
L.Panther

2 November 23, 2003 6:53 AM juctice

thank you BBC, keep up the great work !

3 November 23, 2003 7:05 AM ALI

this is probably why BBC is the best news chanel, it offers fair, balanced and most importantly serious journalism unlike FOX and other similar news chanels . you guys are the best KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK .

4 November 30, 2003 7:31 AM Tom Lonergan

Well Done BBC, we need to see more exposure of one of this, a crime of enormous proportions against the defenceless Palestinian people. Dozens of Palestinians are kiled each month - Here's a list of victims from the last month, taken from the margins of the daily newspaper chronicles: A 32-year-old motorcyclist shot to death in the chest after soldiers said he tried to escape a checkpoint near Iskar refugee camp; a 10-year-old boy from Sejaya in Gaza who was bird hunting with a slingshot near the separation fence around Gaza, killed by a tank shell fired at him; an eighth-grader from Barukin, near Jenin, who threw stones at soldiers, shot dead; a youth shot to death during "disturbances" after the funeral of his friend in Jenin; a taxi driver and father of six shot to death in Tul Karm by soldiers who thought he was trying to get away; a 15-year-old killed in Yata during some arrests; a nine-year-old killed by IDF fire in Rafah; and three Palestinians who were on their way to the holiday dinner last Wednesday in Gaza, killed by soldiers who claimed they thought the three were an armed cell.
Hope to see a BBC documentaryon the Illegal Wall soon

Regards