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21 years ago!!

> In a letter sent to her family from Gaza, Corrie described the Palestinian suffering she had witnessed shortly before she was killed:
> "No amount of reading, attendance at conferences, documentary viewing and word-of-mouth could have prepared me for the reality of the situation here," she wrote. "You just can't imagine it unless you see it."

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rachel-corrie-activist-crushed-israel-bulldozer
#RachelCorrie #IsraeliBulldozer #GazaBulldozer
#GazaIsrael #IsraelGaza

23-year-old peace activist Rachel Corrie is crushed to death by Israeli bulldozer

An Israeli-owned bulldozer kills 23-year-old American woman Rachel Corrie on March 16, 2003, as she protests a demolition campaign that destroyed over a thousand homes in the Gaza Strip. Following the death of their daughter, Corrie’s parents filed a civil lawsuit against the state of Israel, asserting she had been intentionally killed—or that the soldier driving […]

HISTORY
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> In her final interview, in March 2003, Corrie spoke.. surrounded by the ruins of destroyed houses in #Rafah. Shortly before she arrived, the Israeli military bulldozed the city's two largest water wells, knocking out over half of #RafahsWaterSupply.
> "In the time I've been here, children have been shot and killed," she said. "I feel like what I'm witnessing here is a very systematic destruction of people's ability to survive. And that is incredibly horrifying."

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/30/1241231447/rachel-corrie-gaza-palestinians-aid-israel-hamas-war

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2004
> Caterpillar Inc., the U.S.-based heavy-equipment company, should immediately suspend sales of its powerful D9 bulldozer to the Israeli army, Human Rights Watch said today. As Human Rights Watch documented in a recent report, the Israeli military uses the D9 as its primary weapon to raze Palestinian homes, destroy agriculture and shred roads in violation of the laws of war.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2004/11/21/israel-caterpillar-should-suspend-bulldozer-sales

#IsraelCaterpillar #GazaCaterpillar #CaterpillarBulldozers #CaterpillarInGaza

Israel: Caterpillar Should Suspend Bulldozer Sales

Human Rights Watch
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2024
> Norway’s largest pension fund.. cut ties with Caterpillar...
> “For a long time, Caterpillar has supplied bulldozers and other equipment that has been used to demolish #PalestinianHomes and infrastructure to clear the way for #IsraeliSettlements,” said Kiran Aziz, head of responsible investments...
> #KLP is a $90bn pension fund managing retirement assets for more than half a million #Norwegian city, health and other public sector workers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/28/norway-divest-caterpillar-gaza
#CaterpillarCorp
Norway pension fund sells $69m stake in Caterpillar over alleged involvement in Gaza destruction

KLP divests from US bulldozer company over alleged contribution to construction of illegal Israeli settlements

The Guardian
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> Over.. numerous campaigns, IDF bulldozers have been used to demolish thousands of Palestinian homes in Gaza, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless... deliberate.. punitive destruction.. to punish the families of those accused of terrorism... a war crime.. [says] the #HumanRightsWatch. The Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights has advised #CaterpillarInc. that by supplying the bulldozers to the #IDF it may be complicit in #HumanRightsViolations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDF_Caterpillar_D9
IDF Caterpillar D9 - Wikipedia

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