Rachel Corrie Trials resume in Haifa

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Yesterday, 3 April, hearings for the Rachel Corrie trial resumed in Haifa’s District Court after a five-month recess since the last hearing in early November.

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"The Corrie family brought a civil lawsuit, charging Israel with criminal negligence and the intentional killing of their daughter. In addition, the suit charges Israel with the failure of due regard to the presence of nonviolent civilians by the operators and commanders of the military vehicle. Hearings for the trial began in March 2010.

Rachel Corrie, who travelled to the Gaza Strip in 2003 with the International Solidarity Movement, was crushed to death by a D9 bulldozer on 16 March 2003 while she was nonviolently prevent the bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian home in Rafah in the Gaza Strip.

Prosecuting counsel, Hussein Abu Hussein first examined an expert engineer responsible for training operators and commanders of bulldozers. Two soldiers usually run bulldozers: the operator who steers the machine and the commander who gives directions.

While the witness was not responsible for the direct training of the soldiers operating the bulldozers on the day of Rachel’s murder, Abu Hussein questioned him on how soldiers are trained in the instance of civilians being present.

According to their training manual, no machine should be operated within 20 meters of a person. According to this rule, the machines should have been turned off when ISM activists were present."

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1. I'd like to think they might gain some form of "justice,"

but I'm not holding my breath. I remember with great horror, the overt attempts to censor this story in the US and the FREEPER type responses whenever the sujbect was broached on many websites. RIP, Rachel. I will NOT forget you. :cry:

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2. +1 nt

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3. Testimony ends in Israeli case over slain American

Haifa District Court set to enter verdict deliberations in civil suit filed over pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie's 2003 death

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4093453,00.html

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"An Israeli court has heard its final witness in a trial surrounding the death of American activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003.

Israel's commanding officer in Gaza at the time, Colonel Pinhas Zuaretz, testified before the Haifa District Court Sunday.

Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist who was 23 at the time, was killed when she stood before the bulldozer in an attempt to block it from demolishing a Palestinian home.

The military cleared the soldier who drove the bulldozer, saying he could not see the activist."