Israel Court Rules Rachel Corrie Death an Accident
Rachel Corrie nonviolently blocks Israeli bulldozers from destroying Palestinian homes along the Rafah/Egyptian border along with nine other International Solidarity Movement volunteers on March 16, 2003. (Photo: Joe Carr/Wikimedia Commons)
An Israeli court has ruled that the death of an American activist, who was crushed in Gaza nine years ago, was a regrettable incident.
Rachel Corrie was protesting against the demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah when she was hit by a bulldozer.
The civil court concluded that she had been killed by a falling slab of concrete.
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