Tag: Rachel Corrie

  • ISM statement on the killing of Rachel Corrie

    OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND Our friend and fellow activist for peace, Rachel Corrie, was murdered on Sunday March 16, when she was purposely run over by an Israeli-driven, US-made (Caterpillar D9) bulldozer, while trying to prevent a Palestinian civilian home from being demolished by the Israeli military in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip. Rachel…

  • The closest eye witness account on the murder of Rachel Corrie

    by Tom Dale March 17, 2003 Many of you will of heard varying accounts of the death of Rachel Corrie, maybe others will have heard nothing of it. Regardless, I was 10 metres away when it happened 2 days ago, and this is the way it went. We’d been monitoring and occasionally obstructing the 2…

  • Haaretz: IDF: Death of U.S. activist in Gaza was ‘regrettable accident’

    By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, and Agencies The killing of an American woman peace protester Sunday by an IDF bulldozer, which ran her over during the demolition of a house at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, was a “regrettable accident,” a spokesman for the the IDF said. “This is a regrettable…