| Date: | Saturday April 12, @09:33PM |
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| Author: | admin |
| Topic: | Police Brutality |
| from the independent.co.uk dept. | |
Parents of injured British student demand investigation into 'deliberately reckless actions'
By Andrew Johnson and Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
13 April 2003
The parents of a British student shot in the head by Israeli troops yesterday accused the Israeli government of "deliberate recklessness".
Tom Hurndall, 21, is in a critical condition in Bir Sheva hospital and may be brain damaged after being shot by a sniper on Friday.
Yesterday his father, Anthony Hurndall, 52, said: "The Israeli government and the Israeli military will have something to answer. There will be questions. I want to know what happened. I want it to be brought to light."
Speaking with his wife Jocelyn at home in north London, before leaving for Israel, Mr Hurndall, a lawyer, referred to suspicions that the Israeli army has begun targeting "human shields".
"I think the army is deliberately careless if not deliberately reckless as to who they target," he said.
Tom Hurndall is the third Western activist shield to be seriously hurt in the last month. Rachel Corrie, from the US, was killed by a bulldozer she was trying to prevent from moving last month. Brian Avery, 24, an American, was shot in the face in the West Bank, in Jenin, last week.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=396696
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