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In 2003, a young woman named Rachel Corrie tried to stop a home from being destroyed. She put on a bright florescent vest, grabbed a hand-held megaphone, and stood in front of an armored bulldozer barreling down on the home of her host family. Rachel was in Palestine.
The Israeli military was in the middle of a mass effort to destroy Palestinian homes during this time. The next on their list was that of Samir Nasrallah, a local pharmacist with a wife and children, who were Rachel’s hosts while she served as an aid worker in their country.
The Nasrallah children watched as Rachel died.
Later, the Israeli government would make excuse after excuse for Rachel’s death. When her parents, Craig and Cindy, tried to appeal to the Israeli courts for justice, their arguments were cast aside. Yesh Din (an Israeli human rights organization), Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and other human rights organizations all criticized Israel for continuing a trend of impunity for its soldiers. Certainly, Corrie’s parents never got justice. Neither have most of the Palestinians killed since.
