People
AVERY, Brian -- Peace Activist
On 5 April 2003, Israeli troops shot International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist Brian Avery in Jenin. Avery, a 24-year-old American citizen from Albuquerque, New Mexico, experienced serious wounds to his face after Israeli troops shot at him with heavy machine gun fire from an armored personnel carrier (APC). An internal inquiry by the Israeli military concluded that the incident in which Brian was shot "never occurred" and therefore the military determined that an investigation was unnecessary. On 28 February 2005, Avery petitioned the Israeli high court to force the military to hear the eyewitness testimony it suppressed at the time of the incident. (Added 19 March 2005)

Key Coverage
  • The Brian Avery shooting: When will we realise that there can't be this many "accidents"?, Nigel Parry (5 April 2003)
  • American peace activist shot in the face from an Israeli APC in Jenin, Michael Shaik, International Solidarity Movement (5 April 2003)
  • Brian Avery shooting: Annotated map from eyewitness Tobias Karlsson, Tobias Karlsson, International Solidarity Movement (7 April 2003)
  • ISM: Israeli soldier shoots British ISM activist Tom Hurndall in Gaza, Press Release, International Solidarity Movement (11 April 2003)
  • ISM: Report from May 5th Press Conference in Jerusalem, Report, International Solidarity Movement (10 May 2003)
  • Photostory: Injured ISM activist Brian Avery returns home, Brooks de Wetter-Smith and Michael Brown (16 June 2003)


    Case before the Israeli high court
  • Brian Avery challenges Israeli military impunity, Press Release, International Solidarity Movement (23 February 2005)
  • Brian Avery's day in Israel's Supreme Court, Lisa Nessan (28 February 2005)


    Opinion & Analysis
  • U.S. must probe death In Gaza, Letter from Stanley Heller, The Hartford Courant (19 April 2003)
  • Armed with principles, Ali Abunimah (22 April 2003)
  • Rachel Corrie Died In Palestine Rubble, But Her Issue Lives, Philip Weiss, New York Observer (1 May 2003)
  • Western human shields battered in Mideast; rethink strategies, Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters (2 May 2003)
  • Our humanity in the balance, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Gordon Murray and Drew Penland, Winnipeg Free Press (4 May 2003)
  • Canadian MP nominates ISM for Nobel Prize, Svend J. Robinson, Letter of Nomination (12 May 2003)
  • Speech at Rachel Corrie memorial: Israel's blanket immunity, Rula Sharkawi (13 May 2003)
  • PCHR deplores Israel's unprecedented actions against internationals, PCHR (18 May 2003)
  • Trafalgar Square speech by Tom Hurndall's sister Sophie, Sophie Hurndall (20 May 2003)
  • Israeli Foreign Minister's incitement against Palestinian NGOs, Press Release, PCHR (22 May 2003)
  • International rights groups decry increased harassment of monitors, International HRO's, Joint Press Release (26 May 2003)
  • Thirty-six years of silence, Gordon Murray (6 June 2003)
  • Freedom Summer, Adam Shapiro, The Nation (17 July 2003)


    Related Links
  • BY TOPIC: Rachel Corrie
  • BY TOPIC: Thomas Hurndall


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