🔺Israeli occupation army forces displaced families out of the Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.

[A.k]

21 years ago, American activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death in Rafah, southern #Gaza, when an IOF bulldozer ran over her, as she was trying to prevent it from demolishing a Palestinian home.

Wearing a bright vest and using a megaphone, Rachel, stood defiantly in front of the killing machine. Zionism knows no restraint. The driver ran over the 23-year-old unarmed American citizen, instantly killing her.

A zionist court described the murder as a "regrettable accident." In the August 2012 ruling dismissing the claims of Rachel's family, the judge placed the blame solely on Rachel for her own martyrdom, saying "she did not distance herself from the area, as any thinking person would have done."

21 years have passed. Palestinian homes continue to be demolished, settlements continue to be made, and the blood-thirsty occupation continues to kill, in violation of all that is human and holy. Martyrs fall, one after the other for the homeland to rise, as our people continue to resist.

In an email sent to her parents, Rachel wrote: "I am discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances — which I also haven't seen before. I think the word is dignity."

Today, we honor Rachel. We honor her unwavering sense of solidarity that pushed her to stand for what she believed in until her last breath. We honor her love for the righteousness of the cause she believed in, and her will to abide by the truth, no matter the sacrifices.

From Rachel Corrie to Aaron Bushnell, the blood is one, the killer is one. Lessons of solidarity continue to be learned and applied, as our people continue to teach the meaning of resistance, and dignity.

May we continue to learn, and teach, until the land, drenched with our sacrifices, bleeds no more.



[AI]