November 2005

by Cindy and Craig Corrie

October 10, 2005 - When our daughter Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza strip on March 16, 2003, an immediate impulse was to get her words out to the world. She had been working in Rafah with a nonviolent resistance organization, the International Solidarity Movement, trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and wells. Her emails home had had a powerful impact on our family, making us think about the situation in the Middle East in ways we had never done before. Without a direct connection to Israel and Palestine, we had not . . .