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Rachel Corrie, 23, was killed on 16 March when she was crushed twice by an Israeli bulldozer. Rachel was trying to stop the bulldozer from demolishing the home of a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip.
Rachel Corrie traversed half the globe in order to fulfill one of the greatest lessons of World War II: Crossing national boundaries to fight for the lives of innocent people under threat from oppressive forces.
Ms. Corrie was killed while serving her commitments to the Palestinian people of the Rafah Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip.
Ms. Corrie understood well this statement from the Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal of 1950: “Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience.” This principle guided her steps to use her body to defend the home of an impoverished refugee family from a 60-ton Israeli bulldozer made in the United States by Caterpillar.
 The International Solidarity Movement is a Palestinian-led movement of Palestinian and International activists working to raise
awareness of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and an end to Israeli occupation.
by utilizing nonviolent, direct-action methods of resistance to confront and challenge illegal Israeli occupation forces and policies.
 A Poem by: David Rovics
When she sat down in the dirt In front of your machine A lovely woman dressed in red You in military green If you had met her in Jerusalem You might have asked her on a date But here you were in Gaza Rolling towards the gate
As your foot went to the floor Did you recall her eyes Did her gaze remind you That you've become what you despise As you rolled on towards this woman And ignored all the shouts to stop Did you feel a shred of doubt As you watched her body drop
And as your Caterpillar tracks Upon her body pressed With twenty tons of deadly force Crushed the bones within her chest Could you feel the contours of her face As you took her life away Did you serve your country well On that cool spring day
And when you went back across the Green Line Back to the open shore Did you think that this was just another day In a dirty war And when you looked out on the water Did you feel an empty void Or was it just one more life you've taken One more home destroyed
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