On 10 April 2006 , an English inquest jury at St Pancras coroner 's court in London found that Hurndall had been " unlawfully killed " . Hurndall 's father told reporters that there had been a " general policy " to shoot civilians in the area without fear of reprisals , as stated by the soldier who fired the shot , Taysir Hayb . Hayb had earlier told a military tribunal that the Israeli army " fires freely in Rafah . " The lawyer representing the family , Michael Mansfield QC , stated : Make no mistake about it , the Israeli defence force have today been found culpable by this jury of murder . A week earlier , an inquest found that the British journalist James Miller had been killed by an Israeli soldier just three weeks after Mr. Hurndall was shot , a mile away from Hurndall 's position . The coroner Dr. Andrew Reid stated that he would write to the Attorney General about how similar incidences could be prevented , including the possible prosecutions of Israeli commanders , and that the case raised issues of command within the IDF . He stated that " two British citizens engaged in lawful activities " had been killed by Israeli soldiers , and that " British citizens , journalists , photographers or others may be subject to the risk of fatal shots . " Tom 's mother Jocelyn Hurndall wrote a commentary in '' The Guardian '' on 10 January 2004 , in which she stated : It seems that life is cheap in the occupied territories . Different value attached to life depends on whether the victim happens to be Israeli , international or Palestinian . On 13 October 2008 , Channel 4 broadcast a dramatised documentary '' The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall '' , which was written by Simon Block and directed by Rowan Joffe . Stephen Dillane plays Anthony Hurndall and Kerry Fox plays Jocelyn Hurndall . Anthony and Jocelyn Hurndall were interviewed at length in '' The Observer '' prior to the airing of the documentary : '' The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall '' was nominated for a 2009 British Academy Television Award as Best Single Drama ( Simon Block , Rowan Joffe , Barney Reisz , Charles Furneaux ) and won Best Actor ( Stephen Dillane ) and Best Director Fiction/Entertainment ( Rowan Joffe ) . At the Monte Carlo TV Festival Rowan Joffe won Golden Nymph 2009 as Best Director in a TV Film
2009 British Academy Television Award
British Academy Television Awards 2009
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