[AnNahar] Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday heard an appeal by the parents of a U.S. activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003.The parents of Rachel Corrie
...aka Saint Pancake. A member of the lefty International Solidarity Movement, she attempted to stare down an Israeli bulldozer in 2003...
asked for a decision clearing the military of any responsibility for her death to be overturned, alleging "negligence" in the treatment of the case by an Israeli court.
"I think they've set a very low threshold in terms of what would be considered negligence, and just ignored the lack of a credible and thorough investigation," Rachel's father Craig Corrie said, referring to the 2012 court ruling.
"If you take (all the material for the appeal) together, what you have is a mechanism that allows the Israeli military to act with impunity," he told journalists before the hearing.
"As an ex-soldier myself I think that's very dangerous."
His wife Cindy Corrie said: "I think there are very important decisions that this court needs to make that impact far more than Rachel."
It was unclear when the Supreme Court would rule on the appeal.
| The mills of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small. Sometime in the next century sounds about right -- under the circumstances the judges won't want to have missed anything. |
The ruling sparked an angry reaction from the family, with Cindy Corrie accusing the Israeli authorities of a cover-up.
According to eyewitness accounts, the 23-year-old was killed by a military bulldozer in Rafah in the southern Gazoo Strip on March 16, 2003.
At the time, she was acting as a human shield with a group of activists from the pro-Paleostinian International Solidarity Movement to prevent troops from demolishing a house.