TOM*DALE*EYEWITNESS*ACCOUNT
He is a British Citizen from Lichfield, Birmingham, birth date 17 August*1984.
"Many of you will of heard varying accounts of the death of Rachel Corrie, maybe others will have heard nothing of it. Regardless, I was 10 metres away when it happened 2 days ago, and this is the way it*went."
"We’d been monitoring and occasionally obstructing the 2 bulldozers for about 2 hours when 1 of them turned toward a house we knew to be threatened with demolition. Rachel knelt down in its way. She was 10-20 metres in front of the bulldozer, clearly visible, the only object for many metres, directly in its view. They were in radio contact with a tank that had a profile view of the situation. There is no way she could not have been seen by them in their elevated cabin. They knew where she was, there is no*doubt.The bulldozer drove toward Rachel slowly, gathering earth in its scoop as it went. She knelt there, she did not move. The bulldozer reached her and she began to stand up, climbing onto the mound of earth. She appeared to be looking into the cockpit. The bulldozer continued to push Rachel, so she slipped down the mound of earth, turning as she went. Her faced showed she was panicking and it was clear she was in danger of being*overwhelmed.All the activists were screaming at the bulldozer to stop and gesturing to the crew about Rachel’s presence. We were in clear view as Rachel had been, they continued. They pushed Rachel, first beneath the scoop, then beneath the blade, then continued till her body was beneath the cockpit. They waited over her for a few seconds, before reversing. They reversed with the blade pressed down, so it scraped over her body a second time. Every second I believed they would stop but they never did."
He says he ran for an ambulance, and Rachel was gasping and Rachel's face was covered in blood from a gash cutting her face from her lip to her cheek.
He says Rachel was showing signs of brain hemorrhaging and Rachel died in the ambulance a few minutes later of massive internal injuries.
He says about Rachel, that she was a brilliant, bright and amazing person, and immensely brave and committed.
He adds that more than 10 Palestinians have died in the Gaza Strip since*Rachel.
Four eyewitnesses describe the murder of Rachel Corrie | The Electronic Intifada