Peace activist Rachel Corrie, 23, a student at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, died Sunday, March 16, 2003, in the southern Gaza city of Rafah while trying to stop an Israeli bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician’s home.
She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up. Israeli military spokesman Captain Jacob Dallal called her death an accident. The U.S. government asked Israeli officials for a full investigation but the inquiry has been buried in committee, leaving the Israeli military’s investigation – which cleared itself of any wrongdoing – as the only official investigation.
As an International Solidarity Movement volunteer in Rafa, Rachel must have thought that no Israeli soldier or bulldozer driver would dare kill the citizen of a country from whom Israel was requesting an $11 billion aid package.
She was wrong.
Further Reading : Rachel Corrie Memorial Website
