![]() ![]() These materials are put up in the streets and handed out to all the people who attend the game. ![]() Officials print and distribute posters, pictures, and leaflets to tell Corrie's story, why she came to Gaza, and how she was killed, quoting her words on Palestinian rights. Nearly two decades on, the championship is still held every year with several sports including football, table tennis, and martial arts, attended by thousands of Palestinians, according to Mohammad Gharib, the event's information coordinator. It was launched in 2010 by a football match between the two teams from that neighborhood and evolved into an official championship with more than 32 competing sports teams from all parts of Gaza. Near the home that Corrie was protesting to save, Palestinians launched an annual sports championship in her memory. Gazans received news of her murder with grief and horror, describing her as a "martyr" and staging a massive funeral for the American activist. She was crushed to death when the bulldozer driver ran her over, according to witnesses. There, on March 16, she stood in front of an Israeli bulldozer, staging a peaceful protest to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition. In 2003, she traveled to Palestine for her senior-year college assignment - to connect her hometown with Rafah, as part of a sister cities project.ĭuring her stay, she engaged with members of the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian NGO. She was the youngest of three children of Craig and Cindy Corrie, who described their family as "average American, politically liberal, economically conservative, middle class." Since then, she has become an icon of solidarity with the Palestinians.īorn on April 10, 1979, in Olympia, Washington, Rachel Corrie had dedicated her life to human rights, defending Palestinian rights in particular. On a Friday 19 years ago, a 23-year-old American woman was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes in the southern town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. ![]()
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