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  1. We will never forget you and what you did for Palestine. πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ•ŠοΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

    We will never forget #RachelCorrie. She lives in our hearts

  2. We will never forget you and what you did for Palestine. πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ•ŠοΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

    We will never forget #RachelCorrie. She lives in our hearts

  3. We will never forget you and what you did for Palestine. πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ•ŠοΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

    We will never forget #RachelCorrie. She lives in our hearts

  4. On May 16, 2011, Israel fired upon and turned back a ship carrying an international group of activists and plastic sewer pipes to Gaza.

    The ship was called The Spirit of Rachel Corrie.

    Listen here: archive.org/details/2011-wings

    #Gaza #genocide #Palestine #zionism #Israel #RachelCorrie

  5. On May 16, 2011, Israel fired upon and turned back a ship carrying an international group of activists and plastic sewer pipes to Gaza.

    The ship was called The Spirit of Rachel Corrie.

    Listen here: archive.org/details/2011-wings

    #Gaza #genocide #Palestine #zionism #Israel #RachelCorrie

  6. On May 16, 2011, Israel fired upon and turned back a ship carrying an international group of activists and plastic sewer pipes to Gaza.

    The ship was called The Spirit of Rachel Corrie.

    Listen here: archive.org/details/2011-wings

    #Gaza #genocide #Palestine #zionism #Israel #RachelCorrie

  7. On May 16, 2011, Israel fired upon and turned back a ship carrying an international group of activists and plastic sewer pipes to Gaza.

    The ship was called The Spirit of Rachel Corrie.

    Listen here: archive.org/details/2011-wings

    #Gaza #genocide #Palestine #zionism #Israel #RachelCorrie

  8. Cindy Corrie apoya la iniciativa de Bernie Sanders para bloquear bulldozers estadounidenses a Israel

    πŸ“° TΓ­tulo original: Let’s Finally Do Something About the Bulldozer That Killed My Daughter

    πŸ€– IA: Es clickbait ⚠️
    πŸ‘₯ Usuarios: Es clickbait ⚠️

    Ver resumen IA completo: killbait.com/es/cindy-corrie-a

    #polΓ­tica #rachelcorrie #berniesanders #israel

  9. Under the pallets of the barbaric and Zionist Israeli bulldozers that came to destroy the homes of the Palestinian people, Rachel Corrie’s whose mere existence sacrificed her life at 16 Mars 2023 in Rafah
    Isaril'in ΓΆldΓΌrdΓΌgΓΌ Filistin destekleyicisi aktivist #RachelCorrie yi anΔ±yorum. #SayNoToCrime #satnotowar #FreePalestine #FreeGaza

  10. RACHEL SCHIACCIATA DA UNA RUSPA ISRAELIANA
    di Alfredo Facchini

    16 marzo 2003. Rafah. Sono giornate terribili: l’esercito terrorista con la stella di David Γ¨ impegnato a demolire centinaia di abitazioni lungo il confine tra Gaza e l’Egitto. È in corso l'Intifada di Al Aqsa.

    Rachel Corrie, 23 anni, attivista statunitense, vola a Rafah per svolgere azioni di interposizione con il suo movimento: l'International Solidarity Movement. L’unica arma a disposizione Γ¨ il loro corpo.

    <<Sono a Rafah. Una cittΓ  di 140mila persone, il 60% delle quali sono profughi. Al momento, l’esercito israeliano sta costruendo un muro alto dodici metri tra Rafah e il confine. 602 case sono state completamente rase al suolo dai bulldozer e il numero di quelle parzialmente distrutte Γ¨ ancora piΓΉ alto>>.

    Il viaggio di Rachel finirΓ  nel peggiore dei modi. PerderΓ  la vita proprio nel tentativo di impedire che una ruspa militare demolisse l'abitazione di un medico palestinese. Viene travolta. Schiacciata.

    Il tribunale di Haifa sentenziΓ² che il conducente del bulldozer non vide Rachel e che la sua morte fu <<il risultato di un incidente che lei stessa aveva attirato su di sΓ©>>. Una versione vile, smentita da decine di testimonianze.

    <<Quel giorno di marzo, durante le operazioni di demolizione, Rachel Corrie e gli altri attivisti internazionali indossavano come di solito un giubbotto arancione fluorescente per essere riconoscibili e si rivolgevano ai soldati con megafoni, restando di fronte ai bulldozer diverse ore per impedire loro di distruggere le abitazioni>>.

    Prima di finire sotto i cingoli di una ruspa dell’esercito israeliano Rachel scrive una lettera appassionata a sua madre. Ecco alcuni stralci.

    <<Mamma, adesso l'esercito israeliano Γ¨ arrivato al punto di distruggere con le ruspe la strada per Gaza, ed entrambi i checkpoint principali sono chiusi.
    Significa che se un palestinese vuole andare ad iscriversi all'universitΓ  per il prossimo quadrimestre non puΓ² farlo. La gente non puΓ² andare al lavoro, mentre chi Γ¨ rimasto intrappolato dall'altra parte non puΓ² tornare a casa; e gli internazionali, che domani dovrebbero essere ad una riunione delle loro organizzazioni in Cisgiordania, non potranno arrivarci in tempo.

    Probabilmente ce la faremmo a passare se facessimo davvero pesare il nostro privilegio di internazionali dalla pelle bianca, ma correremmo comunque un certo rischio di essere arrestati e deportati, anche se nessuno di noi ha fatto niente di illegale.

    Sappi che un mucchio di palestinesi molto simpatici si sta prendendo cura di me. Mi sono presa una lieve influenza e per curarmi mi hanno dato dei beveroni al limone buonissimi. E poi la signora che ha le chiavi del pozzo dove ancora dormiamo mi chiede continuamente di te.

    Non sa una parola d'inglese ma riesce a chiedermi molto spesso della mia mamma. Vuole essere sicura che ti chiami. Un abbraccio a te, a papΓ , a Sara, a Chris e a tutti. Rachel>>

    #AlfredoFacchini

    #RachelCorrie #16marzo2003 #Israele #israelegenocida

    @politica @storia

  11. RACHEL SCHIACCIATA DA UNA RUSPA ISRAELIANA
    di Alfredo Facchini

    16 marzo 2003. Rafah. Sono giornate terribili: l’esercito terrorista con la stella di David Γ¨ impegnato a demolire centinaia di abitazioni lungo il confine tra Gaza e l’Egitto. È in corso l'Intifada di Al Aqsa.

    Rachel Corrie, 23 anni, attivista statunitense, vola a Rafah per svolgere azioni di interposizione con il suo movimento: l'International Solidarity Movement. L’unica arma a disposizione Γ¨ il loro corpo.

    <<Sono a Rafah. Una cittΓ  di 140mila persone, il 60% delle quali sono profughi. Al momento, l’esercito israeliano sta costruendo un muro alto dodici metri tra Rafah e il confine. 602 case sono state completamente rase al suolo dai bulldozer e il numero di quelle parzialmente distrutte Γ¨ ancora piΓΉ alto>>.

    Il viaggio di Rachel finirΓ  nel peggiore dei modi. PerderΓ  la vita proprio nel tentativo di impedire che una ruspa militare demolisse l'abitazione di un medico palestinese. Viene travolta. Schiacciata.

    Il tribunale di Haifa sentenziΓ² che il conducente del bulldozer non vide Rachel e che la sua morte fu <<il risultato di un incidente che lei stessa aveva attirato su di sΓ©>>. Una versione vile, smentita da decine di testimonianze.

    <<Quel giorno di marzo, durante le operazioni di demolizione, Rachel Corrie e gli altri attivisti internazionali indossavano come di solito un giubbotto arancione fluorescente per essere riconoscibili e si rivolgevano ai soldati con megafoni, restando di fronte ai bulldozer diverse ore per impedire loro di distruggere le abitazioni>>.

    Prima di finire sotto i cingoli di una ruspa dell’esercito israeliano Rachel scrive una lettera appassionata a sua madre. Ecco alcuni stralci.

    <<Mamma, adesso l'esercito israeliano Γ¨ arrivato al punto di distruggere con le ruspe la strada per Gaza, ed entrambi i checkpoint principali sono chiusi.
    Significa che se un palestinese vuole andare ad iscriversi all'universitΓ  per il prossimo quadrimestre non puΓ² farlo. La gente non puΓ² andare al lavoro, mentre chi Γ¨ rimasto intrappolato dall'altra parte non puΓ² tornare a casa; e gli internazionali, che domani dovrebbero essere ad una riunione delle loro organizzazioni in Cisgiordania, non potranno arrivarci in tempo.

    Probabilmente ce la faremmo a passare se facessimo davvero pesare il nostro privilegio di internazionali dalla pelle bianca, ma correremmo comunque un certo rischio di essere arrestati e deportati, anche se nessuno di noi ha fatto niente di illegale.

    Sappi che un mucchio di palestinesi molto simpatici si sta prendendo cura di me. Mi sono presa una lieve influenza e per curarmi mi hanno dato dei beveroni al limone buonissimi. E poi la signora che ha le chiavi del pozzo dove ancora dormiamo mi chiede continuamente di te.

    Non sa una parola d'inglese ma riesce a chiedermi molto spesso della mia mamma. Vuole essere sicura che ti chiami. Un abbraccio a te, a papΓ , a Sara, a Chris e a tutti. Rachel>>

    #AlfredoFacchini

    #RachelCorrie #16marzo2003 #Israele #israelegenocida

    @politica @storia

  12. RACHEL SCHIACCIATA DA UNA RUSPA ISRAELIANA
    di Alfredo Facchini

    16 marzo 2003. Rafah. Sono giornate terribili: l’esercito terrorista con la stella di David Γ¨ impegnato a demolire centinaia di abitazioni lungo il confine tra Gaza e l’Egitto. È in corso l'Intifada di Al Aqsa.

    Rachel Corrie, 23 anni, attivista statunitense, vola a Rafah per svolgere azioni di interposizione con il suo movimento: l'International Solidarity Movement. L’unica arma a disposizione Γ¨ il loro corpo.

    <<Sono a Rafah. Una cittΓ  di 140mila persone, il 60% delle quali sono profughi. Al momento, l’esercito israeliano sta costruendo un muro alto dodici metri tra Rafah e il confine. 602 case sono state completamente rase al suolo dai bulldozer e il numero di quelle parzialmente distrutte Γ¨ ancora piΓΉ alto>>.

    Il viaggio di Rachel finirΓ  nel peggiore dei modi. PerderΓ  la vita proprio nel tentativo di impedire che una ruspa militare demolisse l'abitazione di un medico palestinese. Viene travolta. Schiacciata.

    Il tribunale di Haifa sentenziΓ² che il conducente del bulldozer non vide Rachel e che la sua morte fu <<il risultato di un incidente che lei stessa aveva attirato su di sΓ©>>. Una versione vile, smentita da decine di testimonianze.

    <<Quel giorno di marzo, durante le operazioni di demolizione, Rachel Corrie e gli altri attivisti internazionali indossavano come di solito un giubbotto arancione fluorescente per essere riconoscibili e si rivolgevano ai soldati con megafoni, restando di fronte ai bulldozer diverse ore per impedire loro di distruggere le abitazioni>>.

    Prima di finire sotto i cingoli di una ruspa dell’esercito israeliano Rachel scrive una lettera appassionata a sua madre. Ecco alcuni stralci.

    <<Mamma, adesso l'esercito israeliano Γ¨ arrivato al punto di distruggere con le ruspe la strada per Gaza, ed entrambi i checkpoint principali sono chiusi.
    Significa che se un palestinese vuole andare ad iscriversi all'universitΓ  per il prossimo quadrimestre non puΓ² farlo. La gente non puΓ² andare al lavoro, mentre chi Γ¨ rimasto intrappolato dall'altra parte non puΓ² tornare a casa; e gli internazionali, che domani dovrebbero essere ad una riunione delle loro organizzazioni in Cisgiordania, non potranno arrivarci in tempo.

    Probabilmente ce la faremmo a passare se facessimo davvero pesare il nostro privilegio di internazionali dalla pelle bianca, ma correremmo comunque un certo rischio di essere arrestati e deportati, anche se nessuno di noi ha fatto niente di illegale.

    Sappi che un mucchio di palestinesi molto simpatici si sta prendendo cura di me. Mi sono presa una lieve influenza e per curarmi mi hanno dato dei beveroni al limone buonissimi. E poi la signora che ha le chiavi del pozzo dove ancora dormiamo mi chiede continuamente di te.

    Non sa una parola d'inglese ma riesce a chiedermi molto spesso della mia mamma. Vuole essere sicura che ti chiami. Un abbraccio a te, a papΓ , a Sara, a Chris e a tutti. Rachel>>

    #AlfredoFacchini

    #RachelCorrie #16marzo2003 #Israele #israelegenocida

    @politica @storia

  13. March 16, 2003 - Rachel Corrie, an American college student in Gaza to protest Israeli military and security operations, was killed when run over by a bulldozer while trying to stop Israeli troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.

    The 23-year-old from Olympia, Washington, was a member of International Solidarity Movement and was the first nonviolent western protester to die in the occupied territories.

    #RachelCorrie

  14. March 16, 2003 - Rachel Corrie, an American college student in Gaza to protest Israeli military and security operations, was killed when run over by a bulldozer while trying to stop Israeli troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.

    The 23-year-old from Olympia, Washington, was a member of International Solidarity Movement and was the first nonviolent western protester to die in the occupied territories.

    #RachelCorrie

  15. March 16, 2003 - Rachel Corrie, an American college student in Gaza to protest Israeli military and security operations, was killed when run over by a bulldozer while trying to stop Israeli troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.

    The 23-year-old from Olympia, Washington, was a member of International Solidarity Movement and was the first nonviolent western protester to die in the occupied territories.

    #RachelCorrie

  16. March 16, 2003 - Rachel Corrie, an American college student in Gaza to protest Israeli military and security operations, was killed when run over by a bulldozer while trying to stop Israeli troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.

    The 23-year-old from Olympia, Washington, was a member of International Solidarity Movement and was the first nonviolent western protester to die in the occupied territories.

    #RachelCorrie

  17. #RachelCorrie died 23 years ago today, on 16 March 2003. She was crushed by an #Israeli army bulldozer, when trying to prevent the demolition of a house in #Rafah, #Gaza, owned by a #Palestinian doctor and his family. Rachel was 23-years-old. See rachelcorriefoundation.org

    #JimPage's song "I'd rather be dancing" is based on letters Rachel wrote home to her parents before Israelis murdered her: youtu.be/QxazIsQE1XE

    Rachel placed her body between civilians and killers. That's what a war hero is.

  18. #RachelCorrie died 23 years ago today, on 16 March 2003. She was crushed by an #Israeli army bulldozer, when trying to prevent the demolition of a house in #Rafah, #Gaza, owned by a #Palestinian doctor and his family. Rachel was 23-years-old. See rachelcorriefoundation.org

    #JimPage's song "I'd rather be dancing" is based on letters Rachel wrote home to her parents before Israelis murdered her: youtu.be/QxazIsQE1XE

    Rachel placed her body between civilians and killers. That's what a war hero is.

  19. #RachelCorrie died 23 years ago today, on 16 March 2003. She was crushed by an #Israeli army bulldozer, when trying to prevent the demolition of a house in #Rafah, #Gaza, owned by a #Palestinian doctor and his family. Rachel was 23-years-old. See rachelcorriefoundation.org

    #JimPage's song "I'd rather be dancing" is based on letters Rachel wrote home to her parents before Israelis murdered her: youtu.be/QxazIsQE1XE

    Rachel placed her body between civilians and killers. That's what a war hero is.

  20. #RachelCorrie died 23 years ago today, on 16 March 2003. She was crushed by an #Israeli army bulldozer, when trying to prevent the demolition of a house in #Rafah, #Gaza, owned by a #Palestinian doctor and his family. Rachel was 23-years-old. See rachelcorriefoundation.org

    #JimPage's song "I'd rather be dancing" is based on letters Rachel wrote home to her parents before Israelis murdered her: youtu.be/QxazIsQE1XE

    Rachel placed her body between civilians and killers. That's what a war hero is.

  21. At a press conference in Washington Cindy Corrie (the mother of American activist Rachel Corrie) said if there had been consequences for Rachel's killing other families wouldn't be 'standing there today'

    @rachelcorriefnd.bsky.social

    newarab.com/news/rachel-corrie

    #RachelCorrie #Israel #Gaza #Accountability #Justice #BoycotIsrael #israel

  22. At a press conference in Washington Cindy Corrie (the mother of American activist Rachel Corrie) said if there had been consequences for Rachel's killing other families wouldn't be 'standing there today'

    @rachelcorriefnd.bsky.social

    newarab.com/news/rachel-corrie

    #RachelCorrie #Israel #Gaza #Accountability #Justice #BoycotIsrael #israel

  23. At a press conference in Washington Cindy Corrie (the mother of American activist Rachel Corrie) said if there had been consequences for Rachel's killing other families wouldn't be 'standing there today'

    @rachelcorriefnd.bsky.social

    newarab.com/news/rachel-corrie

    #RachelCorrie #Israel #Gaza #Accountability #Justice #BoycotIsrael #israel

  24. The mother of Rachel Corrie, the American activist who was killed in #Gaza by Israeli bulldozers in 2003, said the #US must hold #Israel to account for the killing of Americans.

    At a press conference in Washington, Cindy Corrie said that if there had been consequences for #RachelCorrie's killing, then other families wouldn't be 'standing there today

    newarab.com/news/rachel-corrie

  25. The mother of Rachel Corrie, the American activist who was killed in #Gaza by Israeli bulldozers in 2003, said the #US must hold #Israel to account for the killing of Americans.

    At a press conference in Washington, Cindy Corrie said that if there had been consequences for #RachelCorrie's killing, then other families wouldn't be 'standing there today

    newarab.com/news/rachel-corrie

  26. The mother of Rachel Corrie, the American activist who was killed in #Gaza by Israeli bulldozers in 2003, said the #US must hold #Israel to account for the killing of Americans.

    At a press conference in Washington, Cindy Corrie said that if there had been consequences for #RachelCorrie's killing, then other families wouldn't be 'standing there today

    newarab.com/news/rachel-corrie

  27. The mother of Rachel Corrie, the American activist who was killed in #Gaza by Israeli bulldozers in 2003, said the #US must hold #Israel to account for the killing of Americans.

    At a press conference in Washington, Cindy Corrie said that if there had been consequences for #RachelCorrie's killing, then other families wouldn't be 'standing there today

    newarab.com/news/rachel-corrie

  28. #RachelCorrie #Caterpillar

    "21 years after her death in Gaza, Palestinians remember U.S. activist Rachel Corrie

    March 30, 2024

    AMMAN, Jordan β€” Twenty-one years ago this month, Rachel Corrie, a young American activist, was protesting the Israeli demolition of homes in the Gaza Strip. Bulldozers had already destroyed the surrounding houses in the neighborhood of Rafah where she was based; on March 16, 2003, they came for the Nasrallah family home where the college student was staying.
    A State Department official warns Israel of 'major' reputational damage in Gaza war
    Middle East crisis β€” explained
    A State Department official warns Israel of 'major' reputational damage in Gaza war

    Corrie, wearing an orange fluorescent vest and speaking through a bullhorn, was determined to stop them. Standing alone on a mound of earth in the path of the armored vehicle, she expected the Israeli bulldozer approaching her to come to a halt, as other bulldozers had done when faced with international protesters.

    But it kept going, and, as her fellow activists screamed and tried to stop it, the 23-year-old college student from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death. The Nasrallah family's children watched in horror through a crack in their garden wall.

    Since her death, Corrie's legacy has echoed through the years in Gaza and the region, where people name their children after her. It still resonates in the United States, where her journals were turned into books and a play. Her death two decades ago points to a continuing military occupation of Gaza and the destruction of Palestinian civil society in Gaza, where the World Bank estimates Israel has destroyed almost half of all homes since October, when the war with Hamas started.

    While the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing war have galvanized the world, Gaza's isolation and deprivation amid ongoing attacks have lasted for as long as many Palestinians β€” including some of the Nasrallah children β€” have been alive.

    (. . .)

    'We are hoping for a million Rachel Corries to be our fearless lifeline,' says Nour Nasrallah, one of the daughters in Corrie's Gaza host family, whose home Corrie was killed trying to save. 'We really need that kind of support right now.'

    The Nasrallah family now fears losing their current home in Rafah to an Israeli invasion

    Nasrallah, 22, was a toddler when Corrie was killed. She graduated from college in Gaza two months before the war started and has occupied her time since then writing and illustrating a children's book about Corrie titled *I'd Rather Be Dancing!*

    'I was just two, but the memories and the stories about her have been passed down through my family from one generation to the next,' Nasrallah tells NPR in voice messages from Gaza. 'My dad always talks about her ... how she was this brave soul and fearlessly stood up for the truth.'

    The Nasrallah home was left standing on the day Corrie was killed, but eventually was demolished after Corrie's death β€” part of an operation in which Israel said it needed to clear the area of hiding places for militants. Now in a different home in Rafah, they are afraid their current home could be demolished in a threatened Israel ground invasion of the city.

    'It's scary to think of about losing our home and everything we hold β€” the memories,' says Nour Nasrallah.

    (. . .)

    In many ways, the war has magnified and intensified the isolation, death and destruction already inflicted on Gaza for years.

    In her final interview, in March 2003, Corrie spoke to the Middle East Broadcasting network, surrounded by the ruins of destroyed houses in Rafah. Shortly before she arrived, the Israeli military bulldozed the city's two largest water wells, knocking out over half of Rafah's water supply.

    'In the time I've been here, children have been shot and killed,' she said. 'I feel like what I'm witnessing here is a very systematic destruction of people's ability to survive. And that is incredibly horrifying.'

    Two days later, Corrie was dead."

  29. #RachelCorrie #Caterpillar

    "21 years after her death in Gaza, Palestinians remember U.S. activist Rachel Corrie

    March 30, 2024

    AMMAN, Jordan β€” Twenty-one years ago this month, Rachel Corrie, a young American activist, was protesting the Israeli demolition of homes in the Gaza Strip. Bulldozers had already destroyed the surrounding houses in the neighborhood of Rafah where she was based; on March 16, 2003, they came for the Nasrallah family home where the college student was staying.
    A State Department official warns Israel of 'major' reputational damage in Gaza war
    Middle East crisis β€” explained
    A State Department official warns Israel of 'major' reputational damage in Gaza war

    Corrie, wearing an orange fluorescent vest and speaking through a bullhorn, was determined to stop them. Standing alone on a mound of earth in the path of the armored vehicle, she expected the Israeli bulldozer approaching her to come to a halt, as other bulldozers had done when faced with international protesters.

    But it kept going, and, as her fellow activists screamed and tried to stop it, the 23-year-old college student from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death. The Nasrallah family's children watched in horror through a crack in their garden wall.

    Since her death, Corrie's legacy has echoed through the years in Gaza and the region, where people name their children after her. It still resonates in the United States, where her journals were turned into books and a play. Her death two decades ago points to a continuing military occupation of Gaza and the destruction of Palestinian civil society in Gaza, where the World Bank estimates Israel has destroyed almost half of all homes since October, when the war with Hamas started.

    While the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing war have galvanized the world, Gaza's isolation and deprivation amid ongoing attacks have lasted for as long as many Palestinians β€” including some of the Nasrallah children β€” have been alive.

    (. . .)

    'We are hoping for a million Rachel Corries to be our fearless lifeline,' says Nour Nasrallah, one of the daughters in Corrie's Gaza host family, whose home Corrie was killed trying to save. 'We really need that kind of support right now.'

    The Nasrallah family now fears losing their current home in Rafah to an Israeli invasion

    Nasrallah, 22, was a toddler when Corrie was killed. She graduated from college in Gaza two months before the war started and has occupied her time since then writing and illustrating a children's book about Corrie titled *I'd Rather Be Dancing!*

    'I was just two, but the memories and the stories about her have been passed down through my family from one generation to the next,' Nasrallah tells NPR in voice messages from Gaza. 'My dad always talks about her ... how she was this brave soul and fearlessly stood up for the truth.'

    The Nasrallah home was left standing on the day Corrie was killed, but eventually was demolished after Corrie's death β€” part of an operation in which Israel said it needed to clear the area of hiding places for militants. Now in a different home in Rafah, they are afraid their current home could be demolished in a threatened Israel ground invasion of the city.

    'It's scary to think of about losing our home and everything we hold β€” the memories,' says Nour Nasrallah.

    (. . .)

    In many ways, the war has magnified and intensified the isolation, death and destruction already inflicted on Gaza for years.

    In her final interview, in March 2003, Corrie spoke to the Middle East Broadcasting network, surrounded by the ruins of destroyed houses in Rafah. Shortly before she arrived, the Israeli military bulldozed the city's two largest water wells, knocking out over half of Rafah's water supply.

    'In the time I've been here, children have been shot and killed,' she said. 'I feel like what I'm witnessing here is a very systematic destruction of people's ability to survive. And that is incredibly horrifying.'

    Two days later, Corrie was dead."

  30. #RachelCorrie #Caterpillar

    "21 years after her death in Gaza, Palestinians remember U.S. activist Rachel Corrie

    March 30, 2024

    AMMAN, Jordan β€” Twenty-one years ago this month, Rachel Corrie, a young American activist, was protesting the Israeli demolition of homes in the Gaza Strip. Bulldozers had already destroyed the surrounding houses in the neighborhood of Rafah where she was based; on March 16, 2003, they came for the Nasrallah family home where the college student was staying.
    A State Department official warns Israel of 'major' reputational damage in Gaza war
    Middle East crisis β€” explained
    A State Department official warns Israel of 'major' reputational damage in Gaza war

    Corrie, wearing an orange fluorescent vest and speaking through a bullhorn, was determined to stop them. Standing alone on a mound of earth in the path of the armored vehicle, she expected the Israeli bulldozer approaching her to come to a halt, as other bulldozers had done when faced with international protesters.

    But it kept going, and, as her fellow activists screamed and tried to stop it, the 23-year-old college student from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death. The Nasrallah family's children watched in horror through a crack in their garden wall.

    Since her death, Corrie's legacy has echoed through the years in Gaza and the region, where people name their children after her. It still resonates in the United States, where her journals were turned into books and a play. Her death two decades ago points to a continuing military occupation of Gaza and the destruction of Palestinian civil society in Gaza, where the World Bank estimates Israel has destroyed almost half of all homes since October, when the war with Hamas started.

    While the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing war have galvanized the world, Gaza's isolation and deprivation amid ongoing attacks have lasted for as long as many Palestinians β€” including some of the Nasrallah children β€” have been alive.

    (. . .)

    'We are hoping for a million Rachel Corries to be our fearless lifeline,' says Nour Nasrallah, one of the daughters in Corrie's Gaza host family, whose home Corrie was killed trying to save. 'We really need that kind of support right now.'

    The Nasrallah family now fears losing their current home in Rafah to an Israeli invasion

    Nasrallah, 22, was a toddler when Corrie was killed. She graduated from college in Gaza two months before the war started and has occupied her time since then writing and illustrating a children's book about Corrie titled *I'd Rather Be Dancing!*

    'I was just two, but the memories and the stories about her have been passed down through my family from one generation to the next,' Nasrallah tells NPR in voice messages from Gaza. 'My dad always talks about her ... how she was this brave soul and fearlessly stood up for the truth.'

    The Nasrallah home was left standing on the day Corrie was killed, but eventually was demolished after Corrie's death β€” part of an operation in which Israel said it needed to clear the area of hiding places for militants. Now in a different home in Rafah, they are afraid their current home could be demolished in a threatened Israel ground invasion of the city.

    'It's scary to think of about losing our home and everything we hold β€” the memories,' says Nour Nasrallah.

    (. . .)

    In many ways, the war has magnified and intensified the isolation, death and destruction already inflicted on Gaza for years.

    In her final interview, in March 2003, Corrie spoke to the Middle East Broadcasting network, surrounded by the ruins of destroyed houses in Rafah. Shortly before she arrived, the Israeli military bulldozed the city's two largest water wells, knocking out over half of Rafah's water supply.

    'In the time I've been here, children have been shot and killed,' she said. 'I feel like what I'm witnessing here is a very systematic destruction of people's ability to survive. And that is incredibly horrifying.'

    Two days later, Corrie was dead."