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  • Family of US activist killed by bulldozer to sue Israel

    02/24/2010 6:10:28 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 49 replies · 1,053+ views
    AFP via Yahoo! News ^ | February 24, 2010
    The family of US activist Rachel Corrie, run over by an Israeli bulldozer during a demonstration in Gaza in 2003, will sue the Jewish state over her death, their lawyer said on Wednesday. The 23-year-old killed at the height of the 2000 Palestinian intifada, or uprising, became an symbol of foreign support for the Palestinian cause and the subject of a 2005 play based on her emails and diary. "The state should take responsibility for the death of Rachel Corrie. We believe her killing was done intentionally or at least out of negligence and wrongdoing," Hussein Abu Hussein, the family's...