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British UN worker unlawfully shot by an Israeli sniper UK inquest has concluded
Don Rizzle:
British UN worker unlawfully shot
By Nic Rigby
BBC News, Ipswich
A British UN project manager, shot by an Israeli sniper, was unlawfully killed a UK inquest has concluded.
Iain Hook, 54, of Felixstowe, Suffolk, was in a UN compound in Jenin when he was shot in November 2002.
On Friday, jurors unanimously agreed that Mr Hook, who was born in Essex, was unlawfully killed.
Coroner Dr Peter Dean said he was so concerned by the case and that 13 UN workers have died in Jenin he will write to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Dr Dean will send copies of his letters to the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and the Israeli ambassador and said when delivering the verdict that the Ipswich inquest was the only one to consider other deaths in the area.
The inquest at Ipswich Crown Court had heard that the shooting took place after troops surrounded the nearby hideout of an Islamic Jihad leader.
Mr Hook was leading a UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) project to rebuild the camp in the West Bank, which was home to 13,000 Palestinian refugees.
Not mistaken identity
Earlier Dr Peter Hansen, former Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said that over the past four years 13 UNRWA workers, including Mr Hook, had been shot in similar circumstances by the Israeli army.
Mr Hook was the only non-Palestinian.
On Monday in a statement Paul Wolstenholme, a colleague of Mr Hook who was in the compound at time of the shooting, said the Israeli special forces sniper would have known Mr Hook was not a Palestinian.
"It was not a case of mistaken identity, it was a deliberate act," he said.
The Israeli authorities declined to attend the inquest.
The inquest heard that the Israeli authorities claimed the sniper had mistaken Mr Hook's mobile phone for a pistol.
Dr Hansen showed the jury photographs of where the gunman was positioned and said: "It is fairly difficult to imagine how a small mobile phone could be mistaken for a gun."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/suffolk/4534620.stm
Published: 2005/12/16 12:09:17 GMT
I TO DA GEEZY:
--- Quote from: Don Rizzle on December 16, 2005, 06:16:05 AM ---Dr Hansen showed the jury photographs of where the gunman was positioned and said: "It is fairly difficult to imagine how a small mobile phone could be mistaken for a gun."
--- End quote ---
In the battlefield it's enough to reach into your pocket, without a cue, to get shot, especially under the circumstances under which the IDF is forced to operate.
I'd like to see this Dr Hensen guy after a week in Jenin at that time, I bet he'd mistake not only phones for guns but even smaller objects...People who don't know shit about guerilla warfare make ungrounded assumptions(lol@ deliberate) and call them inquest conclusions.
J @ M @ L:
Nothing new... Israeli soldiers always try to kill reporters and peace activists...
virtuoso:
you really sicken me with your apologetic stance in defence of all actions, ffs use your brain. I suppose when Israeli bulldozers have ran over peace activists that was accidental to, or maybe they thought the peace activists were carrying bombs.
Im just waiting now for some zionist bs newslink now about english suicide bombers posing as peace activists.
King Tech Quadafi:
--- Quote from: I TO DA GEEZY on December 16, 2005, 09:57:02 AM ---
--- Quote from: Don Rizzle on December 16, 2005, 06:16:05 AM ---Dr Hansen showed the jury photographs of where the gunman was positioned and said: "It is fairly difficult to imagine how a small mobile phone could be mistaken for a gun."
--- End quote ---
In the battlefield it's enough to reach into your pocket, without a cue, to get shot, especially under the circumstances under which the IDF is forced to operate.
I'd like to see this Dr Hensen guy after a week in Jenin at that time, I bet he'd mistake not only phones for guns but even smaller objects...People who don't know shit about guerilla warfare make ungrounded assumptions(lol@ deliberate) and call them inquest conclusions.
--- End quote ---
LMFAO!!!! Man, u killing me here. im dying lol.
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