The killing of Rachel Corrie

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- Corrie was volunteering with the group International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which formed after Israel and the United States rejected a proposal by then-United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson to place international human rights monitors in the occupied territories. The ISM defines itself as 'a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles'. Israel was building a large steel wall to separate Rafah from Egypt, and was bulldozing homes and gardens to create a 'buffer zone'. Corrie and seven other activists responded to a call on that March day to protect the home of the Nasrallah family, which was being threatened with demolition by two of the armored Israeli military bulldozers made by the US company Caterpillar. Cindy Corrie, Rachels mother, related what happened: The bulldozer proceeded toward Rachel... She was in her orange jacket. When it kept coming, she rose on the mound, and the eyewitnesses testified that her head rose above the top of the blade of the bulldozer, so she could clearly be seen, but the bulldozer continued and proceeded over her, and so that it was covering her body. It stopped and then reversed, according to the eyewitness testimonies, without lifting its blade, so backed over her once again.
The civil action against the Israeli defence ministry will decide whether damages should be paid for her death in Gaza at the age of 23. A full investigation was never carried out.
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