Remembering Rachel Corrie, peace activist and symbol of the Palestinian cause
March 18, 2024Rachel Corrie’s legacy of human rights activism lives on 21 years after she was killed by Israeli occupation forces while acting as a human shield in the Palestinian Rafah refugee camp.
The American activist was 23 years old and in her final year of college when she decided to see Gaza — which was in the midst of the Second Intifada — firsthand.
Since her death, Rachel’s parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie, have been fighting for accountability, suing the Israeli military and defence ministry in 2010.
An Israeli district court announced the verdict of the trial in 2012, ruling that Rachel was in a war zone and that Israel was therefore not responsible for her death, clearing the Israeli military and the driver of the bulldozer of any wrongdoing.
The ruling was condemned by human rights defenders and she has, since, become one of the symbols of the Palestinian cause.
May we all continue to honour the memory of this courageous lady who even as a child understood the horror being commited by Israel against the Palestinians and paid with her life to defend their rights.
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English Script:
Rachel Corrie: I’m here for other children. I’m here because I care. I feel like what I’m witnessing here is a very systematic destruction of people’s ability to survive.
Cindie Corrie: We had the lead investigator in that case say that it was his personal belief that they were at war with everyone in Gaza, including the peace activists.
Rachel Corrie: We have got to understand that these deaths are preventable. We have got to understand that people in third World countries think and care and smile and cry just like us. We have got to understand that they are us. We are them. My dream is to stop hunger by the year 2000. My dream is to give the poor a chance. My dream is to save the 40,000 people who die each day. My dream can and will come true if we all look into the future and see the light that shines there.
