my name is rachel corrie

Rachel Corrie grew up in Olympia, Washington. While at Evergreen State College, she joined the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, and later, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).  Founded in 2001, this Palestinian-led movement is committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. They provide the Palestinian people with two resources: international protection and a voice with which to nonviolently resist an overwhelming military occupation force.

In Gaza on 16th March 2003 Rachel placed herself between a Caterpillar bulldozer and a local home, trying to prevent the Israel Defence Force (IDF) from demolishing it. She was run over twice by the vehicle and killed. 

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Transcript of an eyewitness account by Tom Dale:

Rachel walked to place herself between the home and the bulldozer.  As the bulldozer turned towards them, it had about 20 metres or 10 seconds clear time directly with her in its view to see where she was.  It continued toward her at some pace with a mound of earth building up in front of it.  And as the mound of earth reached Rachel she obviously felt that in order to keep her balance, to keep her footing she had to climb on to this mound of earth to prevent being overwhelmed by it.  When she did this it put her head and shoulders clearly above the top of the bulldozer blade and therefore clearly in the view of the bulldozer driver, so he knew absolutely that she was there.  She falls down the mound of earth and out of sight of the driver; so he has essentially pushed her forward down the mound of earth.  And then she starts to slide and then you see one, then both of her feet disappear, and he simply continued until she was, or the place where she had been, was directly beneath the cockpit of the bulldozer.  They waited a few seconds then withdrew leaving his scoop on the ground.  Only later when it was much clear of her body did it raise its scoop.

 I ran for an ambulance, she was gasping and her face was covered in blood from a gash cutting her face from lip to cheek.  She was showing signs of brain hemorrhaging.  She died in the ambulance a few minutes later.