Rachel Corrie Trial is Concluding. The Key Questions Need Repeating

LOTL..
27 August '12..

Oral testimony in the Rachel Corrie civil lawsuit began on March 10, 2010. Corrie, a member of the International Solidarity Movement, was killed in 2003 while attempting to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes concealing tunnels in the Gaza Strip. The Haifa District Court will be handing down a verdict in the civil lawsuit tomorrow, Tuesday October 28th. As two years have already passed from the beginning of this trial it is important to once again revisit the factual as well as contextual background to what was known to have taken place, and Lenny Ben-David's post at the beginning of the trial still remains the best source to date.

Rachel Corrie Trial Restarts.
Key Questions Need Repeating

By Lenny Ben-David

1. Where did the Rachel Corrie bulldozer incident take place?

Few people recall that the IDF's ground-clearing operation was carried out only 50 meters from the Egyptian border -- near the infamous Philadelphi road. [See map and diagram. All graphic material is from IDF sources.] Up until Corrie's death, the IDF had uncovered more than 40 tunnels from Egypt used to smuggle weapons and terrorists into Gaza. In recent years, after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the number of tunnels approached 1,000.

Why was the ISM trying to block the bulldozers seven years ago? Presumably, they were attempting to protect Hamas' tunnels.

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