Israel: British doctors killed Tom Hurndall

According to today's Guardian, Jocelyn Hurndall has accused the Israeli army of lying about and covering the circumstances surrounding the killing of her son by an Israeli soldier.

"From the start it was a tremendous shock that we were not dealing with authorities who were adamant about getting to the truth," she said.

"You can only conclude that the command colluded in the soldier's original lies, and colluded in it for weeks until they couldn't sustain it any more."

Mrs Hurndall's comments came amid renewed accusations that the military leadership has created a climate of impunity for soldiers who kill civilians.

Last week, a military court sentenced a soldier who shot dead a Palestinian man as he adjusted the television aerial on his roof to 20 months in prison. Last month, the army dropped charges against a soldier who shot dead a British journalist, James Miller, in the Gaza strip.

Tom Hurndall had been in persistent vegetative state for nine months when he died of pneumonia in a London hospital. The defence in the rare trial has argued that British doctors gave him to much morphine.