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3 July 2003
Affidavits, collected by lawyer Raji Sourani in the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, from Gregory S. Schnabel, Thomas Edward Dale, and Richard J.A Purssell. Read more about Affidavits from eyewitnesses to Rachel Corrie killing (Schnabel, Dale, Purssell)
27 March 2003
At a New York branch of Israel’s Bank Leumi, eighteen protesters locked together as a human barricade across Fifth Avenue at 9am this morning. Covered in fake blood, the protesters lay piled in the street at the foot of a mock Caterpillar bulldozer. Read more about Rachel Corrie inspired protest shuts down NY's Fifth Avenue
Rafah, Olympia 20 March 2003
On Tuesday the British Guardian newspaper ran a series of emails from Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist killed by an Israeli army bulldozer. Here the Guardian publishs her final exchange with her father. Read more about Rachel's last mail
19 March 2003
On 19 March 2003, Craig and Cindy Corrie, parents of murdered peace activist Rachel Corrie, held a press conference on the terrace of Cannon House, one of the three buildings of the US House of Representatives in Washington D.C. The following text is the statement they made at the press conference. Courtesy of Partners for Peace. Read more about Statement from the parents of Rachel Corrie
19 March 2003
American peace activist Rachel Corrie was murdered by an Israeli bulldozer driver on 16 March 2003 while attempting to defend a Palestinian doctor’s home from demolition. Four of the seven other International Solidarity Movement members present have written down their recollections of the incident: Tom Dale (US), Greg Schnabel (UK), Richard Purssell (UK), and Joe Smith (US). Courtesy of the International Solidarity Movement. Read more about Four eyewitnesses describe the murder of Rachel Corrie
Palestine, Rafah 16 March 2003
Excerpts from an e-mail from Rachel Corrie to her family, sent on February 7, 2003. Read more about Rachel Corrie: In her own words
16 March 2003
Rachel Corrie was an incredibly good person. I mourn and am very saddened by her murder earlier today, 16 March 2003. She was killed by a bulldozer as the Israeli military ran over her as she was protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Rachel grew up in Olympia, Wa. I originally met her when she was a student in the options program at Lincoln school around 1989. She was a friend of my son and played on the same YMCA basketball team as my daughter. Rachel and I talked a lot the last two years and marched together at various demos. Rachel was a totally caring and gentle person who was outraged by oppression wherever it took place and had become very active working for social justice and peace. Peter Bohmer, a friend of Rachel Corrie’s from Olympia, writes about Rachel’s life. Read more about Remembering Rachel Corrie
16 March 2003
On 16 March 2003 in Rafah, occupied Gaza, 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was murdered by an Israeli bulldozer driver. Rachel was in Gaza opposing the bulldozing of a Palestinian home as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement. Photos clearly show she was well marked, had a megaphone, and posed no threat to the bulldozer driver. “This is a regrettable accident,” Israeli Defence Forces [sic] spokesman Captain Jacob Dallal was reported as saying in Ha’aretz newspaper. “We are dealing with a group of protesters who were acting very irresponsibly, putting everyone in danger.” Read more about Photostory: Israeli bulldozer driver murders American peace activist