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Her death sparked controversy because she was the first Western protester killed in the conflict and a U.S. citizen, and because of the highly politicized nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict; various advocates scrambled to blame it on the IDF, the ISM, the Palestinians, and on Corrie herself.

1 Background

Raised in Olympia, Washington, Rachel was the daughter of Craig Corrie, an insurance executive, and Cindy Corrie, a school volunteer and flutist. After graduating from Capitol High School , she went on to Evergreen State College, where she studied the arts and international relations. During college years, Corrie joined the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace and participated in various peace and environmental activities. In her senior year she took a leave of absence to participate in ISMISM is an abbreviation of: International Solidarity Movement interstellar medium ISM is also a wireless comunications band (ie. a frequency range) TLAs. organized peaceful demonstrations against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and to initiate a sister city project between her hometown Olympia and the Palestinian city of Rafah.

2 Activities in Gaza

On January 18January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 347 days remaining (348 in leap years) Events 300-1899 350 General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor. 474 Leo II becomes briefly Byzantine emper, 2003, Corrie travelled to the Gaza Strip, where she attended two days of training in non-violent resistance techniques and philosophy before joining other ISM activists in direct action for peace and against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Through February and March she participated in a variety of actions including:

• Protesting and disrupting Israeli army demolitions of Palestinian homes by acting as a human shield.

• Protecting Palestinian civilians by placing herself between the Palestinians and the Israeli troops.

• Protecting Palestinian wells from destruction by the Israeli army, by surrounding the wells as human shields. (see photo, left)

• Denouncing the Bush administration for alleged complicity in crimes against Palestinians.

• Demonstrating against the 2003 invasion of Iraq (as part of the Global pre-war protests), where she burned a paper-drawn US flag (but refused to burn an Israeli flag, stating that as a US citizen she could only bear responsibility for opposing US actions; see photo below.)

Corrie stated that she also served as a " human rights observer" of the actions of Israeli troops in the area. She documented the destruction of 25 greenhouses and the digging up of the road to Gaza City by the Israeli army. She also documented that Israeli soldiers fired shots at Rafah Municipal Water Authority workers attempting to rebuild the Canada Well and El Iskan Well , which were bulldozed by the Israeli military on January 30. During her stay, she communicated by e-mail with "Danny," a reserve first sergeant in the Israeli army, who asked her to "document as much as you can and do not embellish anything with creative writing." She also wrote about the smuggling tunnels in Gaza in her report: "Events Surrounding the Deaths of 2 Men in Tunnels beneath the Block O area" (see item 4.)

Corrie met and spoke with local Palestinians and spent several days and nights with Palestinian families in Rafah. In e-mails to her mother, she mentioned watching the cartoon Gummi Bears dubbed in Arabic and helping a Palestinian boy with his English homework. She was also involved in a children's pen pal program between the Gaza Strip and the U.S.

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