Israeli court on Tuesday rejected all claims of negligence in a civil lawsuit brought by the family of US activist Rachel Corrie
She died by hiding out of sight from an armored bulldozer. It was sent to destroy cover brush used by terrorists to hide bombs, like the one used to kill a US diplomat a week later. He was in the PA area to oversee a program of scholarships for Palestinian kids. The news originally reported that she was standing up and visible and waving. However, it later turned out that those photos were taken hours earlier. In fact, the area had been cleared by the military, then she snuck back in and crouched down on the ground, out of sight of the bulldozer driver. Other ISM members described this behavior as a game they often played with bulldozer drivers. Because the drivers have limited visibility, they would crouch out of sight. Then, as the blade pushes up dirt, they sprint up the mound and end up "eye to eye" with a very surprised and shocked driver, who then stops the bulldozer. This time, however, as the judge noted, she slipped as she was sprinting up the dirt pile and fell backwards under it. She got half covered in dirt and after that her friends caught the eye of the driver and he backed up. She later died of her injuries. When people accused the ISM members of lying about how she died, they later responded that they never actively claimed she was standing up and visible or that the photo was just before her death instead of several hours earlier...rather they just failed to correct other people's errors and therefore they never lied. Even the left wing, anti-Israel investigative magazine "Mother Jones" agreed that there is no evidence she as deliberately run over.
