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The Truth about the murder of Rachel Corrie

 
  

Read the last letter Rachel sent to her family in February

 

       In Rafah, Gaza Strip on 3/16/2003 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year old American woman from Olympia, Washington, who was a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed by the Israeli Army.  Rachel was standing in the path of the bulldozer as it advanced towards her.  When the bulldozer refused to stop or turn aside she climbed up onto the mound of dirt and rubble being gathered in front of it wearing a fluorescent jacket to look directly at the driver who kept on advancing.  The bulldozer continued to advance so that she was pulled under the pile of dirt and rubble.  After she had disappeared from view

the driver kept advancing until the bulldozer was completely on top of her.  The driver did not lift the

bulldozer blade and so she was crushed beneath it.  Then the driver backed up - effectively running over

her again.  The seven other ISM activists taking part in the action rushed to dig out her body.  An

ambulance rushed her to Al-Najar Hospital  where she died.

 

The Eviance:

go to the following URL and look at the pictures.  

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/humanrightswire.shtml


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Rachel Corrie
1979–2003

It is with the heaviest of hearts that I inform you that Rachel Corrie was killed on Sunday, March 16,
while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a building in a refugee camp in Gaza. Rachel, a senior at
Evergreen, was most recently a student in “Labor and the Environment,” “Common Ground,” “Local Knowledge”
and a contract entitled “Public Art and the Middle East Conflict.” She was not enrolled this quarter.
Rachel was known to many in the Olympia community. She grew up here and graduated from Capital High
School. She was actively involved in many area activities. Rachel is described by faculty and staff as a
shining star, a wonderful student and a brave person of deep convictions. Rachel will be remembered at
a gathering sponsored by the International Solidarity Movement at 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 16, at Olympia’s
downtown Percival Landing.
 
We have been in contact with and extend deepest condolences to the Corrie family. We are in the process
of contacting the many faculty members with whom Rachel worked. As more information about memorial
services becomes available, we will share it with you.
Vice President of Student Affairs Art Costantino

March 16, 2003
 
Palestinian women carry a mock coffin covered by the Palestinian flag for Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial services in Gaza city, Monday March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
- Mar 17 10:17 AM ET
An unidentified Palestinian woman puts flowers at a mock coffin for Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial services in front of the United Nations (news - web sites) headquarters in Gaza city, Monday, March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
- Mar 17 9:32 AM ET
Palestinian medical workers carry the mock coffin, covered by a Palestinian flag, of Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' while a women carries a placard reading ' No Peace with settlements' during a memorial service in Gaza city, Monday March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)
- Mar 17 9:28 AM ET
Palestinians carry a mock coffin covered by a Palestinian flag of Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' passes by a picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) and the Dome of the Rock during a memorial services in Gaza city, Monday, March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
- Mar 17 9:30 AM ET
A Palestinian medical worker carries a mock coffin covered by a Palestinian flag for Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Washington, a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial service in Gaza city, Monday, March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
- Mar 17 9:01 AM ET
Friends of Rachel Corrie grieve at a candlelight vigil in Olympia, Wash., Sunday evening, March 16, 2003. Corrie, 23, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, died Sunday in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) city of Rafah while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Louie Balukoff)
- Mar 16 11:35 PM ET
Holly Gwinn Graham, center, sings a ballad during a candlelight vigil in Olympia, Wash., Sunday evening, March 16, 2003, for Rachel Corrie, 23, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia. Corrie died Sunday in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) city of Rafah while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Louie Balukoff)
- Mar 16 11:17 PM ET
Olympia, Wash. residents stand in silent vigil around a mock casket at a candlelight vigil Sunday evening, March 16, 2003, for Rachel Corrie, 23, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia. Corrie, 23, died Sunday in Gaza while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Louie Balukoff)
- Mar 16 11:01 PM ET
Peace activist Rachel Corrie is shown at the Burning Man festival in a photo from September 2002, in Black Rock City, Nev. Corrie, 23, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., died Sunday, March 16, 2003, in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) city of Rafah while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said. Israeli military spokesman Capt. Jacob Dallal called her death an accident. State Department spokesman Lou Fintor said the U.S. government had asked Israeli officials for a full investigation. (AP Photo/Denny Sternstein)
- Mar 16 9:41 PM ET
Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement,' burns a mock U.S. flag during a rally in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) town of Rafah in this Feb. 15, 2003 file photo. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003, while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
- Mar 16 8:56 PM ET
Friends try to aid Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement,' in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) town of Rafah Sunday, March 16, 2003, after she was run over by an Israeli army bulldozer. Corrie died Sunday in Gaza while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said.(AP Photo/HO, International Solidarity Movement)
- Mar 16 8:26 PM ET
Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement,' uses a loudspeaker as she stands between an Israeli buldozer and a Palestinian physician's house in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) town of Rafah Sunday, March 16, 2003. Corrie died Sunday while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down the physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said.(AP Photo/HO, International Solidarity Movement)
- Mar 16 6:53 PM ET
Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Washington, a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' stands in front of an Israeli army buldozer in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) town of Rafah Sunday, March 16, 2003. Rachel was run over Sunday by the bulldozer that she was trying to stop from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said.(AP Photo/International Solidarity Movement)
- Mar 16 6:33 PM ET
Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., right, and other members of the 'International Solidarity Movement' hold up a banner reading 'Israeli army stop shooting children' in protest of Israeli military actions at the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) in this photo taken Friday March 14, 2003. Corrie was run over Sunday March 16, 2003 by an Israeli army bulldozer when she was trying to stop the demolition of a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. She was taken to Najar hospitalin Rafah, where she died. (AP Photo/Lorenzo Scaraggi)
- Mar 16 3:27 PM ET
Palestinian doctors try to save the life of Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' at the Najar hospital in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) town of Rafah Sunday, March 16, 2003. Rachel was run over Sunday, March 16, 2003 by an Israeli army bulldozer that she was trying to stop from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
- Mar 16 1:39 PM ET
Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., is seen in this undated picture taken by her friends in the nothern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) town of Rafah. Rachel, a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' was killed when she was run over Sunday, March 16, 2003 trying to stop an Israeli army bulldozer from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/O)
- Mar 16 1:38 PM ET
Alice, no surname available, a friend of 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, from Olympia, Wash., holds her friend's passport as she reacts on hearing the news of her Rachel's death at the Najar hospital in southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) Sunday March 16, 2003. Rachel, a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement', was run over by an Israeli army bulldozer when she was trying to stop the demolition of a house in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. She was taken to Najar hospital in Rafah, where she died. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
- Mar 16 1:42 PM ET
CAPTION CORRECTION - CORRECTING SURNAME OF RACHEL CORRIE U.S. citizen Rachel Corrie (red coat), 23, is helped by colleagues after an Israeli army bulldozer fatally injured her in Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites), March 16, 2003. An Israeli military bulldozer killed Corrie on Sunday, who was protesting the demolition of a house in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials and witnesses said. 'The bulldozer put sand on her and kept crushing her,' said Nicholas Dure, a fellow member of the International Solidarity Campaign to Protect the Palestinian People protest group. REUTERS/Handout
- Mar 16 1:45 AM ET
CAPTION CORRECTION - CORRECTING SURNAME OF RACHEL CORRIE U.S. citizen Rachel Corrie (C), 23, bleeding from her nose and her mouth, is helped by colleagues in Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites), March 16, 2003. An Israeli military bulldozer killed Corrie on Sunday as she was protesting the demolition of a house in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medical officials and witnesses said. 'The bulldozer put sand on her and kept crushing her,' said Nicholas Dure, a fellow member of the International Solidarity Campaign to Protect the Palestinian People protest group. REUTERS/Handout
- Mar 16 1:34 AM ET
CAPTION CORRECTION - CORRECTING SURNAME OF RACHEL CORRIE Undated file photo of 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie, who was killed in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites), March 16, 2003. An Israeli military bulldozer killed Corrie, who was protesting the demolition of a house in Rafah on Sunday, Palestinian medical officials and witnesses said. REUTERS/Str
- Mar 15 9:30 PM ET

 
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