**Israeli soldier convicted of killing British student **
Press Association
Monday June 27, 2005
An Israeli military tribunal today convicted a former soldier of the manslaughter of a British activist killed as he helped Palestinians to take cover during violence in Gaza in 2003.
The soldier was found guilty of shooting Tom Hurndall, 22, a student and member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement. Hurndall died in a London hospital in January 2004 after being in a coma for nine months.
Witnesses said Hurndall, from north London, was shepherding children away from gunfire at a refugee camp in the Palestinian town of Rafah when he was shot in the head in April 2003.
The Israeli army initially disputed claims that a soldier had targeted the 22-year-old, but later ordered a full inquiry after pressure from his family.
The Israeli authorities have not officially identified the soldier involved, but he has been named by those fighting Hurndall’s case as Sergeant Idier Wahid Taysir. He denied the charge.
Hurndall’s mother, Jocelyn, who travelled to Israel for the trial along with other family members, said she welcomed the verdict but did not regard the case as closed.
**“For us, the main issue is not that one soldier has been found guilty of manslaughter but that this sort of thing needs to stop happening, and until that happens this case won’t have been won,” she said. **
She had said before the verdict was announced: “**Tom’s case is unique because it is the sole foreign case which has ever been investigated in Israel. It is clear that this was motivated by pressure from outside, by our family and by the British government.” She said the attitude of the Israeli government had been one of “cover-up from the very first”. **
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1515593,00.html
As usual the retards tried to cover it up. We get one terrorist behind the bars, an that too after persistant family and gov. fight. You can imagine how many others are still roaming free with no gov. to fight them. its a scary thought.