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On January 13, 2004, British photography student Tom Hurndall died after being shot by an Israeli sniper in Gaza nine months earlier. Tom was a volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and an activist against the Israeli occupation. At 21 years of age, he was shot in the head in April 2003 while trying to rescue children from Israeli gunfire in Gaza. Tom had seen a group of children playing and had noticed that bullets were hitting the ground between them. Several children had run away but some were “paralysed with fear” and Hurndall went to help them. Hurndall’s father told the inquest: “Tom went to take one girl out of the line of fire, which he did successfully, but when he went back, as he knelt down [to collect another], he was shot.” Tom was wearing an orange fluorescent vest to mark himself as an unarmed civilian.

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