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Rachel Corrie

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American anti-war and human rights activist

United StatesActivistsLived 1979 to 2003 · aged 23
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Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American nonviolence activist and diarist. She was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and was active throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.

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2012LennonOno Grant for Peace
2003Order of Bethlehem

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About this person

Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American nonviolence activist and diarist. She was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and was active throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. In 2003, she was in Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip then under Israeli occupation, where the demolishment of Palestinian houses by Israeli forces was taking place at the height of the Second Intifada. While protesting the demolitions as they were being carried out, she was killed by an Israeli driving an armored bulldozer that crushed her.

Country
United States
Category
Activists
Type
Activist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1979 to 2003 · aged 23
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30 languages

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