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Witness: U.S. Activist Death in Israel Was Accident
(AFP) Jaafar Ashtiyeh - A key witness in a civil case brought by the family of U.S. activist Rachel Corrie, killed by an Israeli bulldozer during a demonstration in Gaza in 2003, said on Sunday that she had caused her own death. Retired Col. Pinhas Zuaretz, a former brigade commander in Gaza, said a military police investigation found no fault with the behavior of the bulldozer driver or the officers supervising him. He said the massive, armored D9 bulldozer was demolishing buildings from which shots had been fired at Israeli soldiers in a highly dangerous zone near the Gaza-Egypt border. He said the bulldozer operator did not see Corrie because she was behind a pile of rubble, and that a concrete pillar among the debris had struck and killed her. "She was killed in an accident caused by her own negligence," he said.