23 years ago a Jew soldier terrorist murdered Rachel Aliene Corrie.

Sunday, April 12, 2026. Lenapehoking (New York City) – On Friday, April 10, 2026, was the 47 birthday of Rachel Aliene Corrie. Rachel was murdered by a zionist Jew soldier on March 16, 2003 in Palestine. The terrorism, war crimes from the zionist, apartheid, terrorist entity must stop now.

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At the pro-peace, anti-war, anti-genocide protest in Manahatta, Lenapehoking (Manhattan, New York City) was on Friday, April 10, 2026, a woman had a picture of Rachel Corrie and reminded people that it was her birthday.

Rachel Corrie Foundation said on Facebook, “Rachel would have been 47 today (April 10). The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice continues to fight for justice for Palestinians as Rachel did before she was killed.

Today, on her birthday, we’d like you to take action and email or call your senators and ask them to vote YES on the JRD’s in this link! No more bombs! No more D9 bulldozers! No more civilian deaths!

ACT NOW, the vote is happening on April 16: https://www.wa4pj.org/action-center.”

Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an nonviolence activist from the United States of America. She was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and was active throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. In 2003, she was in Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip then under Israeli occupation, where the demolishment of Palestinian houses by Israeli forces was taking place at the height of the Second Intifada. While protesting the demolitions as they were being carried out, she was murdered by a Jew soldier that crushed her with an Israeli armored bulldozer.

“On this day 23 years ago, American activist Rachel Corrie was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer as she protested the demolition of homes in Gaza. She was 23 years old.

Rachel traveled to Gaza during the Second Intifada to not just bear witness, but take up an active role in the struggle for Palestinian freedom. While there, Rachel wrote to her mother: “I’m witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide and I’m really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature. This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don’t think it’s an extremist thing to do anymore.”

On the day she was killed, Rachel heard that home demolitions were starting in the neighborhood in Rafah where she was staying, and rushed to the home of the Nasrallah family to stand in the path of “Israeli” bulldozers. For this exercise of her agency, for this conscientious protest, for acting on her morals in service of humanity and freedom, for standing bravely with a bullhorn in front of her mouth, Rachel paid the ultimate price.

And for this sacrifice, Rachel Corrie lives on in the hearts and minds of the Palestinian people, and for people of conscience the world over. Rachel stands alongside the thousands of martyrs who gave everything there is to give for the cause of liberation, and whose dignified struggle exemplifies the steadfastness of a people who know that liberation is inevitable.

We honor Rachel’s life today, and we will call out to her and every single one of our martyrs on the hour of Palestine’s liberation,” said the Palestinian Youth Movement on March 16, 2026.

23 years ago today, an Israeli soldier driving a U.S.-made Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer ran over Rachel Corrie in Rafah, Gaza, as she tried to stop the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home, crushing her to death. She was 23 years old.

Rachel was a U.S. college graduate who had come to Gaza with @ismpalestine in solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation and brutal oppression. In her letters home, she wrote with heartbreaking clarity about what she was witnessing: the destruction of homes, the suffering of families, and what she described as a “chronic, insidious genocide.” She was scared but she refused to look away.

Today we remember Rachel’s courage, her moral clarity, and her refusal to accept that other people’s lives were expendable. We honor and remember Rachel, because remembrance is an act of defiance when empires want us to forget,” said the Freedom Flotilla Coalition on March 16, 2026.

“March 16, 2003. Rafah, Gaza.

Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old activist who loved to write poems and draw, put her body between an Israeli bulldozer and a Palestinian family home. She wore an orange vest. She had been protesting for hours. She believed it would stop.

It didn’t.

Twenty-three years later, the bulldozers haven’t stopped either.

In Silwan, the artists we work with know this rhythm by heart. They paint on walls that may not exist tomorrow. They create murals on the sides of homes under demolition orders — because when a wall is the only thing left standing, you put something on it that says: We were here. We resisted. You will not erase us.

Rachel wrote home from Rafah: “I feel like what I’m witnessing is a very systematic destruction of people’s ability to survive.”

That is exactly what murals in Silwan push back against, systematically, wall by wall, color by color.

Today, nearly half of all homes in Gaza have been destroyed. In Silwan, demolition notices arrive with the same bureaucratic regularity. The artists don’t stop painting.

That is not despair. That is the most radical act possible.

Rachel Corrie stood in the path of a bulldozer with her body.

The artists of Silwan stand in its path with paint.

We honor her today by continuing the work.”_I Witness Silwan. March 16, 2026.

Excerpt from rachel corrie’s letter to her mother, written three weeks before she was murdered by a Jew soldier in Gaza, Palestine.

“Love you. Really miss you. I have bad nightmares about tanks and bulldozers outside our house and you and me inside. Sometimes the adrenaline acts as an anesthetic for weeks and then in the evening or at night it just hits me again – a little bit of the reality of the situation. I am really scared for the people here. Yesterday, I watched a father lead his two tiny children, holding his hands, out into the sight of tanks and a sniper tower and bulldozers and Jeeps because he thought his house was going to be exploded. Jenny and I stayed in the house with several women and two small babies. It was our mistake in translation that caused him to think it was his house that was being exploded. In fact, the Israeli army was in the process of detonating an explosive in the ground nearby – one that appears to have been planted by Palestinian resistance.

This is in the area where Sunday about 150 men were rounded up and contained outside the settlement with gunfire over their heads and around them, while tanks and bulldozers destroyed 25 greenhouses – the livelihoods for 300 people. The explosive was right in front of the greenhouses – right in the point of entry for tanks that might come back again. I was terrified to think that this man felt it was less of a risk to walk out in view of the tanks with his kids than to stay in his house. I was really scared that they were all going to be shot and I tried to stand between them and the tank. This happens every day, but just this father walking out with his two little kids just looking very sad, just happened to get my attention more at this particular moment, probably because I felt it was our translation problems that made him leave.” Read more here.

Read the collection of Rachel’s emails: rachelcorriefoundation.org/rachel/emails.

Iran named a street after Rachel Corrie.

“Tehran city council has named a street after an American activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003, a local newspaper has reported.

The report in the Hamshahri, a daily affiliated with Tehran’s authorities, said the council has named the street Rachel Aliene Corrie,” reported www.theguardian.com on August 11, 2011.

“Hoy recordamos a Rachel Corrie.

Antes de ser un símbolo, Rachel fue una niña.
Una estudiante.
Una hija.

Tenía 23 años cuando decidió viajar a Gaza para acompañar a familias palestinas que vivían bajo ocupación.

Creía que la solidaridad no debía quedarse en palabras.
Que a veces significaba estar presente, incluso cuando era peligroso.

El 16 de marzo de 2003, en Rafah, Rachel se puso frente a una casa para intentar impedir su demolición.

No llevaba armas.
Solo su cuerpo, su voz y la convicción de que la vida de una familia también importaba.

Rachel murió ese día.

Pero su historia sigue viva en cada persona que se niega a aceptar la injusticia como algo normal.

Más de veinte años después, Gaza sigue necesitando testigos.
Sigue necesitando solidaridad.
Sigue necesitando personas que crean que la vida humana merece ser defendida.

Recordar a Rachel también es recordar que la solidaridad internacional no ha desaparecido.”_Rumbo a Gaza. 16 de marzo de 2026.

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