American Died Trying to Stop Mideast Violence, Parents Say
The parents of a 23-year-old American killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip urged those attending a memorial service to honor her memory by standing up for peace and fighting injustice.
“Rachel was taken from us by the kind of violence that she was working to stop in the Gaza Strip,” Craig Corrie told more than 350 mourners on Saturday.
Rachel Corrie was a member of the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian group that protests Israel’s presence in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel said her March 16 death was an accident. Her parents are pushing for a U.S. investigation.
Corrie dreamed of a sister-city relationship between Rafah, where she died, and Olympia, Wash., where she was a student at Evergreen State College, her parents said.
“She was a face for the faceless and the voice for the voiceless,” said Palestinian-born Mohammad Ismail, one of several speakers at the service in Charlotte, where her parents live.
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