[Netnews-action] 13 Oct: 9pm: Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

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* Tom was a student at MMU
Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
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Monday 13 October
9:00pm - 11:00pm
Channel 4

In 2003, a young British peace activist and photographer was shot by  
an Israeli soldier while trying to help a group of Palestinian  
children in Gaza. "Why were they firing on small children? And why did  
they shoot an unarmed man who was so clearly trying to see them to  
safety?" asks his mother with surprising dignity. Simon Block's  
powerful drama based on true events follows the family's attempts to  
find out what happened and get the Israeli army to accept  
responsibility. It's well worth watching and deserves a bigger  
audience than it will probably get. In part this is down to the strong  
cast but it's also Rowan Joffe's tight direction, which fuels the  
tension without detracting in the slightest from the harrowing  
depiction of a personal tragedy.