] The death of an American peace protester in the Gaza
] Strip Sunday is raising questions about the Israeli
] army's use of force and highlighting the risks
] international activists take to slow the steady violence
] that characterizes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
]
] Rachel Corrie, a student at Evergreen College in Olympia,
] Wash., died trying to prevent an Israeli army bulldozer
] from demolishing a house in Rafah, where Gaza abuts the
] Egyptian border.
]
] Corrie, who was a member of the Palestinian-backed
] International Solidarity Movement, was standing in front
] of a house wearing a brightly colored top and shouting as
] a bulldozer approached her, witnesses said. "Rachel was
] alone in front of the house as we were trying to get them
] to stop," Greg Schnabel, a fellow protester from Chicago,
] told wire services. "She waved for the bulldozer to stop.
] She fell down and the bulldozer kept going. We yelled
] 'Stop, stop,' and the bulldozer didn't stop at all. It
] had completely run over her and then it reversed and ran
] back over her."