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| Corrie was born in Olympia, Washington, the United States in 1979. After graduating from Capital High School, Corrie went on to attend The Evergreen State College. She took a year off from her studies to work as a volunteer in the Washington State Conservation Corps, where she spent three years making weekly visits to mental patients. While at Evergreen State College she became a "committed peace activist" arranging peace events through a local group called "Olympians for Peace and Solidarity". She later joined the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) organisation in order to protest the policies of the Israeli army in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She had gone to Gaza as part of her college's senior-year independent-study proposal to connect [[Olympia, Washington|Olympia]] and Rafah with each other as [[Sister city|sister cities]].<ref name="Neve_Gordon-No-justice-for-Rachel-Corrie">{{cite news |title=No justice for Rachel Corrie |first=Neve |last=Gordon |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/201295851245939.html |department=Opinion |work=Al Jazeera |date=September 5, 2012 |access-date=September 13, 2012}}</ref> While in [[Rafah]] on 16 March 2003, she joined other ISM activists in efforts to nonviolently prevent Israel's demolition of Palestinian property,<ref name="BBC_profile"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Abu Hussein |first=Hussein |date=September 2, 2012 |title=Rachel Corrie: Blaming the victim |url=http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/rachel-corrie-blaming-the-victim.premium-1.462179 |department=Opinion |work=Haaretz |access-date=July 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=August 28, 2012 |title=Rachel Corrie verdict highlights impunity for Israeli military |url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news...dict-highlights-impunity-for-israeli-military |work=Amnesty USA |access-date=July 11, 2014}}</ref> where she was crushed to death and killed by an Israeli bulldozer. | Corrie was born in Olympia, Washington, the United States in 1979. After graduating from Capital High School, Corrie went on to attend The Evergreen State College. She took a year off from her studies to work as a volunteer in the Washington State Conservation Corps, where she spent three years making weekly visits to mental patients. While at Evergreen State College she became a "committed peace activist" arranging peace events through a local group called "Olympians for Peace and Solidarity". She later joined the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) organisation in order to protest the policies of the Israeli army in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She had gone to Gaza as part of her college's senior-year independent-study proposal to connect [[Olympia, Washington|Olympia]] and Rafah with each other as [[Sister city|sister cities]].<ref name="Neve_Gordon-No-justice-for-Rachel-Corrie">{{cite news |title=No justice for Rachel Corrie |first=Neve |last=Gordon |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/201295851245939.html |department=Opinion |work=Al Jazeera |date=September 5, 2012 |access-date=September 13, 2012}}</ref> While in [[Rafah]] on 16 March 2003, she joined other ISM activists in efforts to nonviolently prevent Israel's demolition of Palestinian property,<ref name="BBC_profile"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Abu Hussein |first=Hussein |date=September 2, 2012 |title=Rachel Corrie: Blaming the victim |url=http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/rachel-corrie-blaming-the-victim.premium-1.462179 |department=Opinion |work=Haaretz |access-date=July 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=August 28, 2012 |title=Rachel Corrie verdict highlights impunity for Israeli military |url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news...dict-highlights-impunity-for-israeli-military |work=Amnesty USA |access-date=July 11, 2014}}</ref> where she was crushed to death and killed by an Israeli bulldozer. |
| Physicians present and fellow ISM activists claimed that Corrie was deliberately driven over, while the Israeli army claimed that it was an accident because the bulldozer operator did not see her.<ref name="Urquart-Report-Clears-Troops">{{cite news |title=Israeli report clears troops over US death |first=Conal |last=Urquhart |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/14/israel1 |work=The Guardian |date=April 14, 2003 |access-date=April 12, 2010}}</ref><ref name="TIME Who">{{cite magazine |last=Webley |first=Kayla |magazine=Time |title=Who Is Rachel Corrie? |date=June 4, 2010 |url=http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/04/who-is-rachel-corrie/ |access-date=June 6, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Rachel Corrie: A worldwide symbol of the Palestinian struggle |url=http://www.arabnews.com/node/371231 |publisher=arabnews.com |date=March 16, 2011 |access-date=September 8, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rachel Corrie's death: 'it's a no brainer that this was gross negligence' |last=Tarnopolsky |first=Noga |date=September 1, 2012 |url=http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/rachel-corries-death-it-s-no-brainer-was-gross-negligence |work=Alaska Dispatch |access-date=September 8, 2012 |archive-date=September 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2012090...es-death-it-s-no-brainer-was-gross-negligence |url-status=dead }}</ref> Following the incident, the Israeli military investigated itself and found that Corrie's death was the result of an accident due to the cab's alleged limited visibility. The ruling attracted criticism from [[Amnesty International]], [[Human Rights Watch]], [[B'Tselem]], and [[Yesh Din]].<ref name="Amnesty-Impunity">{{cite web |title=Rachel Corrie verdict highlights impunity for Israeli military |date=August 29, 2012 |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/rac...ghlights-impunity-israeli-military-2012-08-28 |publisher=Amnesty International |access-date=September 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2012090...ghlights-impunity-israeli-military-2012-08-28 |archive-date=September 2, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="Christian Science Monitor">{{cite news|last1=Lynfield|first1=Ben|title=Israeli court dismisses Corrie family's lawsuit, ending effort to put army on trial (+video)|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Midd...o-put-army-on-trial-video|access-date=October 26, 2015|work=Christian Science Monitor|date=August 2012}}</ref><ref name="Hass">{{cite news |last=Hass |first=Amira |date=August 23, 2012 |title=U.S.: Israeli probe into Rachel Corrie's death wasn't 'credible' |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diploma...rrie-s-death-wasn-t-credible.premium-1.460091 |work=Haaretz |access-date=September 5, 2012}}</ref> HRW stated that the ruling represented a pattern of impunity for Israeli forces.<ref name="Amnesty-Impunity"/> | Physicians present and fellow ISM activists claimed that Corrie was wearing a high visibility vest and deliberately driven over, while the Israeli army claimed that it was an accident because the bulldozer operator did not see her.<ref name="Urquart-Report-Clears-Troops">{{cite news |title=Israeli report clears troops over US death |first=Conal |last=Urquhart |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/14/israel1 |work=The Guardian |date=April 14, 2003 |access-date=April 12, 2010}}</ref><ref name="TIME Who">{{cite magazine |last=Webley |first=Kayla |magazine=Time |title=Who Is Rachel Corrie? |date=June 4, 2010 |url=http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/04/who-is-rachel-corrie/ |access-date=June 6, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Rachel Corrie: A worldwide symbol of the Palestinian struggle |url=http://www.arabnews.com/node/371231 |publisher=arabnews.com |date=March 16, 2011 |access-date=September 8, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rachel Corrie's death: 'it's a no brainer that this was gross negligence' |last=Tarnopolsky |first=Noga |date=September 1, 2012 |url=http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/rachel-corries-death-it-s-no-brainer-was-gross-negligence |work=Alaska Dispatch |access-date=September 8, 2012 |archive-date=September 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2012090...es-death-it-s-no-brainer-was-gross-negligence |url-status=dead }}</ref> Following the incident, the Israeli military investigated itself and found that Corrie's death was the result of an accident due to the cab's alleged limited visibility. The ruling attracted criticism from [[Amnesty International]], [[Human Rights Watch]], [[B'Tselem]], and [[Yesh Din]].<ref name="Amnesty-Impunity">{{cite web |title=Rachel Corrie verdict highlights impunity for Israeli military |date=August 29, 2012 |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/rac...ghlights-impunity-israeli-military-2012-08-28 |publisher=Amnesty International |access-date=September 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2012090...ghlights-impunity-israeli-military-2012-08-28 |archive-date=September 2, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="Christian Science Monitor">{{cite news|last1=Lynfield|first1=Ben|title=Israeli court dismisses Corrie family's lawsuit, ending effort to put army on trial (+video)|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Midd...o-put-army-on-trial-video|access-date=October 26, 2015|work=Christian Science Monitor|date=August 2012}}</ref><ref name="Hass">{{cite news |last=Hass |first=Amira |date=August 23, 2012 |title=U.S.: Israeli probe into Rachel Corrie's death wasn't 'credible' |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diploma...rrie-s-death-wasn-t-credible.premium-1.460091 |work=Haaretz |access-date=September 5, 2012}}</ref> HRW stated that the ruling represented a pattern of impunity for Israeli forces.<ref name="Amnesty-Impunity"/> |
| In 2005, Corrie's parents filed a civil lawsuit, charging the Israeli state with not conducting a full and credible investigation into the case and therefore holding responsibility for her death.<ref name="Pollard-SMH">{{cite news |title=Israeli army cleared of activist's death |last=Pollard |first=Ruth |date=August 28, 2012 |url=http://www.smh.com.au/world/israeli-army-cleared-of-activists-death-20120828-24ya2.html |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=September 7, 2012}}</ref> They contended that she had either been intentionally killed or that the Israeli soldiers on scene had acted with reckless neglect.<ref name="Times of Israel Court dismisses"/> They sued for a symbolic US$1 in damages. However, an Israeli court rejected their suit in August 2012 and upheld the results of the military's investigation, ruling that the Israeli government was not responsible for Corrie's death,<ref name="Times of Israel Court dismisses"/> again attracting criticism from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and various activists.<ref name="Amnesty-Impunity"/><ref name="Christian Science Monitor"/><ref name="Hass"/> An appeal against this ruling was heard on May 21, 2014, but was ultimately rejected by the [[Supreme Court of Israel]] on February 14, 2015.<ref name="Beaumont-2015">{{cite news |title=Rachel Corrie's family loses wrongful death appeal in Israel's supreme court |last=Beaumont |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Beaumont (journalist) |date=February 13, 2015 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/12/rachel-corrie-family-appeal-israel-court |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2015021...b/12/rachel-corrie-family-appeal-israel-court |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> | In 2005, Corrie's parents filed a civil lawsuit, charging the Israeli state with not conducting a full and credible investigation into the case and therefore holding responsibility for her death.<ref name="Pollard-SMH">{{cite news |title=Israeli army cleared of activist's death |last=Pollard |first=Ruth |date=August 28, 2012 |url=http://www.smh.com.au/world/israeli-army-cleared-of-activists-death-20120828-24ya2.html |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=September 7, 2012}}</ref> They contended that she had either been intentionally killed or that the Israeli soldiers on scene had acted with reckless neglect.<ref name="Times of Israel Court dismisses"/> They sued for a symbolic US$1 in damages. However, an Israeli court rejected their suit in August 2012 and upheld the results of the military's investigation, ruling that the Israeli government was not responsible for Corrie's death,<ref name="Times of Israel Court dismisses"/> again attracting criticism from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and various activists.<ref name="Amnesty-Impunity"/><ref name="Christian Science Monitor"/><ref name="Hass"/> An appeal against this ruling was heard on May 21, 2014, but was ultimately rejected by the [[Supreme Court of Israel]] on February 14, 2015.<ref name="Beaumont-2015">{{cite news |title=Rachel Corrie's family loses wrongful death appeal in Israel's supreme court |last=Beaumont |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Beaumont (journalist) |date=February 13, 2015 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/12/rachel-corrie-family-appeal-israel-court |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2015021...b/12/rachel-corrie-family-appeal-israel-court |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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