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Rachel Corrie verdict exposes Israeli military mindset

Corrie's parents have not received justice, but their quest reveals the lie of the IDF's claim to be the world's 'most moral army'.

Rachel Corrie was crushed by a military bulldozer nine years ago as she tried to stop the Israeli army going about its routine destruction of Palestinian homes.

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Rachel Corrie lies on the ground fatally injured by the Israeli bulldozer.

EVIDENCE BULLDOZED

Israeli military withheld evidence over Corrie’s

The family of Rachel Corrie, the US activist killed in Gaza while protesting against house demolitions in 2003, yesterday claimed the Israeli military authorities withheld video evidence during the Corries’ civil lawsuit and misled US officials on crucial details.
Craig Corrie, Rachel’s father, told a press conference in Jerusalem that the footage from a surveillance camera near the scene of his daughter’s death submitted to the court was incomplete. Additional video material obtained by the family showed Rachel’s body in a different spot to the place identified by some military commanders, he said.
He also alleged that the Israeli military had misled US officials on the position of Rachel’s body when she was killed.
Rachel, from Olympia, Washington state, was killed while attempting to protect the home of a Palestinian family in the Rafah area of Gaza from being demolished by Israeli troops in March 2003. Her family and other activists who witnessed the incident say she was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer.

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[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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Peace activist shot by Israelis is 'brain dead'

Six months after Tom Hurndall, 22, was shot while trying to protect Palestinian children on the Gaza strip, his family are still waiting to hear whether an Israeli military police investigation will take place. They are considering taking legal action should an investigation not proceed.
The Manchester Metropolitan University student, a photo-journalism student, had been in Rafah for a week when he was shot on April 11. Other activists said he was wearing a fluorescent jacket as he went to help three children but was shot from a watchtower.
Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist, was crushed to death by an Israeli armoured bulldozer weeks before Tom was shot.

Israeli bulldozer driver murders American peace activist



Rachel Corrie lies on the ground fatally injured by the Israeli bulldozer.

In Rafah, occupied Gaza, 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie from Olympia, Washington, was murdered by an Israeli bulldozer driver. Rachel was in Gaza opposing the bulldozing of a Palestinian home as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement. Pictures show that the driver knowingly ran over her.