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Rachel Corrie Remembered By Family of Bulldozed Home

The family whose home Rachel Corrie tried to defend a decade ago continues to commemorate her tragic death.

U.S. citizen Rachel Corrie 23, speaks through a megaphone to an Israeli army
bulldozer before she was killed in Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip March 16,
2003. An Israeli military bulldozer killed Corrie on Sunday who was
protesting the demolition of a house in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday,
Palestinian medical officials and witnesses said. "The bulldozer put sand on
her and kept crushing her," said Nicholas Dure, a fellow member of the
International Solidarity Campaign to Protect the Palestinian Peopl
US citizen Rachel Corrie, 23, speaks through a megaphone to an Israeli army bulldozer before she was killed in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, March 16, 2003. — REUTERS

On March 16, 2013, the tenth anniversary of American peace activist Rachel Corrie’s death was marked by no grand commemoration ceremonies. The Nasrallah family, however, as they do every year, went to where their demolished house once stood to place flowers at the scene of her murder. Even though the neighborhood has changed and the tunnel area at the Egypt and Gaza borders has been completely transformed, the Nasrallahs cannot forget.  

Al-Monitor met with the Nasrallahs in their small and humble rented house. They shared their memories from that year, as clearly as if it all happened yesterday and not a decade ago.

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