Atheism_motivational_poster_20.jpg (JPEG Image, 500×399 pixels) File:D9R-pic0010.jpg. Rachel Corrie. Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) from Olympia, Washington, was an American peace activist[1] as well as a member of the pro-Palestinian group called International Solidarity Movement (ISM).[2] She was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) armored bulldozer in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip under contested circumstances[1][3] during the height of the second Palestinian intifada[4] She had come to Gaza as part of her senior-year college assignment to connect her home town with Rafah in a sister cities project.[5] While there, she had engaged with other ISM activists in efforts to non-violently prevent the Israeli army's demolition of the homes of Palestinian people.[1][6][7] In 2005 Corrie's parents filed a civil lawsuit against the state of Israel.
Rachel Corrie's life has been memorialized in several tributes, including the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie and the cantata The Skies are Weeping. Early life. Israeli Assholes Bulldozed My Farm. Khamis' destroyed land.
The youth of Gaza may spend their lives trying to surmount the shitty hand they've been dealt, but the old seem a little too tired to keep up the struggle. Khamis Sukkar is a Palestinian and the vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a political and paramilitary group acting as the official representative of the Palestinian people. He grew up in Gaza until he went to the UK to study. 5001325_orig.jpg (JPEG Image, 1100×777 pixels) - Scaled (76%) Muslim_distribution.jpg (JPEG Image, 2480×1302 pixels) - Scaled (45.