[Peace] Activist Killed in Palestine

[Elizabeth Cimsohn]

Source noted at bottom

[Rachel Corey, 23, the first member of the
International Solidarity Movement
to be killed in the occupied territories.  She was run
over by a bulldozer when she tried to prevent it from
demolishing a Palestinian home.  AK]

Ha'aretz, Sunday, March 16, 2003 Adar2 12, 5763     
Israel Time: 18:58

American woman peace activist killed by IDF bulldozer
in Gaza
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, and Agencies


An American woman peace protester was killed 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. Another activist was
wounded in the
incident.   Rachel Corey, 23, from Olympia,
Washington, was killed when
she
ran in front of the bulldozer to try to prevent it
from destroying a
house,
doctors in Gaza said.   "Corey was killed in the
al-Salam neighbourhood
when
an  Israeli bulldozer covered her with sand as she
stood in front of a
bulldozer," said Dr Ali Musa, a doctor from the
al-Najar hospital in 
the

southern Gaza Strip. He said she died from skull and
chest fractures.
The
IDF said it was checking the report. The U.S. State
Department had no
immediate comment.   Greg Schnabel, 28, from Chicago,
said the
protesters
were in the house of Dr. Samir Masri.   "Rachel was
alone in front of
the
house as we were trying to get them to stop," he said.
"She waved for
bulldozer to stop and waved. She fell down and the
bulldozer kept 
going.
We
yelled 'stop, stop,' and the bulldozer didn't stop at
all. It had
completely
run over her and then it reversed and ran back over
her."   Since the
start
of the Intifada, groups of international protesters
have gathered in
several
locations in territories, setting themselves up as
"human shields" to
try to
stop IDF
operations.   Corey was the first member of the
groups, called
"International Solidarity Movement," to be killed in
the conflict.
Schnabel
said Corey was a student at Evergreen College and was
to graduate this
year.
He said there were eight protesters at the site, four
from the United
States
and four from Great Britain. "We stay with families
whose house is to 
be

demolished," he told the Associated Press by telephone
from Rafah after
the
incident.


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