A pro-Palestinian activist wounded last year by Israeli army fire in the Gaza Strip died. Tom Hurndall, a Briton who worked with the International Solidarity Movement, was shot in the head by a sniper while helping Palestinian children cross a road into a Rafah refugee camp April 11.
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