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Israel refuses compensation to Rachel Corrie’s family

Friday 13-February-2015

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)–The Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal filed by the family of pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie to receive compensation form the Israeli government.

Rachel Corrie is a young woman from the US killed by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003 while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip.

Rachel’s family appealed against a previous court verdict that had ruled that the Israeli army could not be held responsible for incidents in a war zone and asked for compensation for her death.

The high court rejected the appeal and decided to uphold a lower court decision that considered what had happened a war incident and blamed Corrie for her own death.

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