[Slight, hazel-eyed, with high cheekbones and dirty blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, Rachel Corrie carried a megaphone in one hand and an orange fluorescent jacket in the other.]
The death of Rachel Corrie
Placing herself in the path of an Israeli bulldozer that she believed was about to flatten Nasrallah's house, Rachel Corrie was crushed to death -- her skull fractured, her ribs shattered, her lungs punctured. But the bitter accusations and violent recriminations that followed obscured almost everything else about the incident. Palestinians hailed her as a martyr of the Intifada. Several eyewitnesses charged that the bulldozer operator ran her down deliberately and called her killing 'a war crime.' The Israeli government, which rarely acknowledges the deaths of Palestinian civilians killed during its military operations, went into damage-control mode.
[Alienation News log of an originating story here. And a recent story about another peace activist shot by Israelis.]
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