arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Britse vredesactivist die door Israelische soldaten beschoten werd, is dinsdag overleden
by christophe callewaert Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 at 3:42 PM

De Britse vredesactivist Tom Hurndall die in coma lag sinds april vorig jaar nadat een Israelische soldaat hem beschoten had, is dinsdag overleden. Dat heeft zijn familie vandaag bekend gemaakt.

De 22-jarige Tom Hurndall nam vorig jaar deel aan een vredemissie toen hij op 11 april vanuit een Israelische uitkijktoren in het Palestijnse vluchtelingenkamp Rafah beschoten werd. Op het moment van de beschieting probeerde hij net twee Palestijnse kinderen in veiligheid te brengen. Tom werd geraakt in het hoofd en werd al snel klinisch dood verklaard. Sindsdien verbleef hij in een Londens ziekenhuis.

Het Israelische leger beweert dat de dader op 31 december gearresteerd werd en beschuldigd wordt van doodslag. De identiteit van de schutter werd wel niet bekend gemaakt. Tom Hurndall is daarmee het derde dodelijke Westerse slachtoffer van Israelisch geweld in één jaar tijd. In mei werd de Britse cameraman James Miller doodgeschoten in Rafah. En in maart vorig jaar overreed een Israelische bulldozer het lichaam van de 23-jarige Amerikaanse Rachel Corrie die in Rafah protesteerde tegen de afbraak van Palestijnse huizen.

Net als Tom was Rachel lid van de International Solidarity Movement. De organisatie kondigde meteen een protestactie aan Downing Street 16, het huis van de Britse premier Blair in Londen aan. De familie van Tom toonde zich vastberaden om de Israelische moordenaar van Tom in de gevangenis te krijgen. Sinds het begin van de Intifadah nu veertig maanden geleden stierven al 2.768 Palestijnen.

Link
by christophe Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 at 3:47 PM

De familie zette een website op rond Tom Hurndall:
http://www.tomhurndall.co.uk/

Struggle continues
by infoshopper Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 at 4:37 PM

Israel-Palestine, Cal for action by the Anarchists Against The Wall - WITH OUR BODIES AND YELLS WE WILL BLOCK THE WALL!
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Date Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:33:20 +0100 (CET)



You are invited to join us to an active demonstration at the
Dir Balut village of Summeria (south to the village Mas'ha)
next Saturday (3-1-04). Together, Israelis, Palestinians, and
internationals, we will protest the continuation of building
the apartheid wall and the cruel trigger happy hand of the
soldiers of the Israeli army in the occupied territories.

These days, the building of wall in the Dir Balut region is
resumed. According to the present route the people of the
villages Dir Balut, A-zawia, and Rafat will be jailed in an
enclave isolated from the South, East, and West. When the wall
will be completed the only way the villagers will be able to
reach the near by city Ramallah (at their south) will be through
the far away Nobles (at their North).

We will march together towards the road block of the Israeli
army on the road to Ramallah and restrict the free travel of the
inhabitants of the region. The soldiers of the Israel army who
man the road block are systematically abusing the Palestinian
population. A week ago (22.12) the road block soldiers prevented
a seven months pregnant Palestinian from reaching the hospital.
This resulted in the abortion of her twine fetuses at the road
block. Few weeks earlier, the soldiers vandalized a taxi cab passing
the road block for a debt of 200 Shekels ($45.-) of the driver.
The soldiers hit the taxi cab with stones, tear the cab upholstery
and stole things and money.

In the direct action against the wall in Mas'ha the previous Friday
we experienced on our own flesh the life reality of our Palestinian
brothers. By shooting (with live ammunition) us, Israeli activists,
the Israeli army took a step with out precedence, and crossed
another red line. However, this must remind us the daily continuation
of harassment of the army in the occupied territories, where the
killing, the blockade, the strangulation, the invasion and the
annexation do not stop. Shooting us will not deter us from
continuing the active resistance to the apartheid wall built before
our eyes and to the cruel occupation monster.

On Friday we breached the gate at Mas'ha, it must be remembered that
along the route of the wall the gates are kept shut and the
Palestinian inhabitants remain with out access to means of
livelihood. We will continue with our efforts to block with our
bodies the occupation and to open a breach in the wall of hatred.
Even live ammunition will not deter us.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO RESIST THE GETOS BUILDING POLICY IMPLEMENTED
BY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT WITH ITS SOLE AIM - TRANSFER OF THE
PALESTINIAN POPULATION.

The action in Saturday will be the climax of the protest camp against
the wall built two weeks ago at Dir-Balut. The camp, with 24 hour
presence of Israeli and Palestinians is located on the route of the
apartheid wall in the compound of a school whose building was
stopped because of the confiscation of the area for the building
of wall. The camp is used as a base for non-violent protest
activities and information center about the wall building and its
harms.

We call for those who are lured by the sham promises to evacuate
of settlements who believe in the army declarations about cosmetic
changes of the cruel route of the wall and believe to the lies about
its pseudo security aims of the fence - to come and see with their
own eyes the lands annexation project and the expansion of settlement
carried even in these days.

THE PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI RESISTANCE WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS
THE OCCUPATION WHICH BREED THE TERROR WILL NOT BE PUT END TO.

We will meet in Cfar-Kasem village Saturday morning 10:30 3-1-04
(points of departure) Haifa: Kikar Solel Bone - 9:30; Jerusalem:
Binianey Hauma, 9:30; Tel-Aviv: central train station (Arlosorov
terminal), 9:45. Details and coordination for transportation:
Einat - 053-554815

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