Arraf, Huwaida

Arraf, Huwaida

Huwaida Arraf

Target: Peace (activists)

1 June 2003News Huwaida Arraf

Over the past two months, three international peace activists have been shot while attempting to protect the lives and homes of Palestinian civilians. One of them is dead, another seriously injured, the third remains in coma. Huwaida Arraf reports on the ongoing work of the International Solidarity Movement

Friday 11 April, Israeli soldiers shot another peace activist with the International Solidarity Movement. Tom Hurndall, a 22-year-old British civilian was shot in the head by the Israeli military, while trying to move Palestinian children out of the line of Israeli fire. The International Solidarity Movement was protesting at the Israeli military tactic of shooting into Palestinian civilian neighbourhoods, by making their unarmed presence known to the Israeli military. Tom was wearing a…