International Solidarity Movement

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Staff

The Military Advocate General, Major General Menahem Finkelstein, has decided to close the file on the death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie, who died after being crushed by an army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in March.

Corrie, a 23-year-old college student who belonged to the International Solidarity Movement in the territories, was killed by an IDF bulldozer in Rafah, where she was taking part in protest efforts to prevent the army from demolishing houses, in an effort to block smuggling from Egypt.

An investigation conducted by the IDF Southern Command determined that the … Continue reading

By Nathan Guttman
Originally published by Haaretz

WASHINGTON – Craig Corrie sent just one e-mail to his daughter during the seven weeks she spent in Rafah. She addressed most of her letters to her mother, Cindy, and Craig read them with concern. When he was a soldier serving in Vietnam, he would send his loved ones letters with few details and mostly laconic, knowing that too much of a detailed description of the war and the dangers would only increase the worry at home. At home in North Carolina when he read his daughter’s letters, he knew she too was concealing a … Continue reading

By Haaretz Staff

IDF expresses ‘regret’; State Department ‘assessing’ reports

A 23-year-old American woman, Rachel Corrie, a college student from Olympia, Washington who belonged to the International Solidarity Movement in the territories, was killed yesterday by an IDF bulldozer during a house demolition in Rafah.

Israeli officials expressed “regret” over the incident to American officials, sources in Jerusalem said, and in Washington, a State Department statement said it had received reports of the incident, and was “assessing the situation.”

The ISM activist was taking part in protest efforts yesterday afternoon in Rafah, to prevent the army from demolishing houses in a strip of land … Continue reading