Tag: Rachel Corrie
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Parents speaking out to keep alive memory of child killed in Gaza
Photo by Darrell Sapp, Post-Gazette By Gabrielle Banks Originally published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Cindy and Craig Corrie have been doing speaking engagements a few times per month since their daughter Rachel died kneeling in front of an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer in Gaza nearly three years ago. The 23-year-old peace activist’s death became such…
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Rachel was bulldozed to death, but her words are a spur to action
by Cindy and Craig Corrie Originally published in The Guardian When our daughter Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza strip on March 16 2003, an immediate impulse was to get her words out to the world. She had been working in Rafah with a nonviolent resistance organisation, the International Solidarity…
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Rachel Corrie: Answers needed
The family of English peace activist Tom Hurndall is experiencing the cold comfort of justice at last. Hurndall, 22, was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper in Rafah about two years ago while moving Palestinian children out of the line of fire. He remained in a coma for nine months before he died.…