Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American peace activist from Olympia, Washington, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on 16 March 2003, while undertaking nonviolent direct action to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition.
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Israeli army has used indiscriminate killing and terror as a means of breaking Palestinian civilians. One of those places was Rafah, in the southern tip of the Gaza strip, where Rachel Corrie was crushed by a military bulldozer as she tried to stop the Israeli army going about its routine destruction of Palestinian homes...An Israeli judge perpetuated the fiction that Corrie's death was a terrible accident and upheld the results of the military's own investigation, widely regarded as such a whitewash that even the US ambassador to Israel described it as neither thorough nor credible. Corrie's parents may have failed in their attempt to see some justice for their daughter, but in their struggle they forced a court case that established that her death was not arbitrary but one of a pattern of killings as the Israeli army pursued a daily routine of attacks intended to terrorise the Palestinian population of southern Gaza into submission.
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Israel’s investigation into the death of American activist Rachel Corrie was not satisfactory, and wasn’t as thorough, credible or transparent as it should have been, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro told the Corrie family
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Caterpillar, a heavy machinery company which has Israel as a client, hired a private intelligence firm in the early 2000s to spy on the family of student activist Rachel Corrie
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Caterpillar, a heavy machinery company which has Israel as a client, hired a private intelligence firm in the early 2000s to spy on the family of American student activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting
Caterpillar-paid agents allegedly garnered information on the Corries' legal strategy after Rachel's 2003 death by bulldozer protesting Israeli demolitions in Gaza
In unprecedented move, eight European countries to demand compensation from Israel for West Bank demolitions
Rachel Corrie's family loses appeal to Israel's Supreme Court
Leaked documents revealed that Caterpillar, a heavy machinery company which has Israel as a client, hired a private intelligence firm in the early 2000s to spy on the family of student activist
Rachel Corrie, who was killed by a bulldozer while protesting on behalf of Palestinians, the Guardian reported Tuesday.
Craig and Cynthia Corrie display photo of their daughter at a news conference outside the Capitol, Wednesday, March 19, 2003, in Washington.
What can we learn from the Rachel Corrie case
In unprecedented move, eight European countries to demand compensation from Israel for West Bank demolitions
Rachel Corrie's family loses appeal to Israel's Supreme Court
British Airways, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Porsche also reportedly paid for similar private intelligence services to fend off various environmental and social activism groups like Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and local environmental groups in Oxford, the report said.
According to the report based on hundreds of pages of leaked documents reviewed by both the Guardian and the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, Caterpillar hired now-defunct intelligence firm C2i International to spy on the campaign organized by Rachel Corrie's family – including posing as sympathizers to the Corrie's cause.
Corrie, 23, was protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes when she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in 2003, after which her family took legal action against Caterpillar, which had manufactured and sold the equipment to Israel.
Israel's military maintains Corrie's death was an accident, and the bulldozer's driver did not see Corrie.
A judge in 2007 dismissed the Corrie family's allegations, concluding that they did not have the jurisdiction to decide the case. After this verdict, C2i allegedly obtained notes of a phone call Corrie's mother placed to supporters about their legal strategy and possible next steps in their attempts to charge Caterpillar with war crimes for their role in the incident.
Israel's Supreme Court upheld a ruling by a lower court exempting the country from paying civil damages to Corrie's family, as the incident occurred in a war zone.
Cindy Corrie responded by telling the Guardian that she found the corporate spies' misrepresentation of themselves "really distasteful," noting that she had reached out to Caterpillar for an open dialogue but was turned down.
The documents also reportedly show Caterpillar hired a second intelligence firm to monitor activists in 2005.
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