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ISM Used Activists as Terrorists' Human Shields
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Robbie Sabel - In a detailed, 65-page judgment, the Haifa court found that the bulldozer that killed Rachel Corrie was engaged at the time in a military operation to clear the land and not, incidentally, in demolishing houses. The area concerned was the "Philadelphia Corridor," separating Gaza from Egypt, which was under continuous sniper fire from Palestinian terrorists. The sniper fire forced the bulldozer crews to operate with closed hatches, and the court concluded that because of the limited field of vision from the operator's seat, the operator of the bulldozer was not aware of Corrie's presence. Corrie was an activist in the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). The court concluded that the ISM was far from being an innocuous, benign humanitarian body and in fact had been engaged in sabotaging the IDF's operations, stationing activists to serve as "human shields" for terrorists wanted by Israeli security forces, and providing assistance to Palestinian terrorists and their families. The court also found that Corrie was aware that she was illegally entering a war zone and deliberately risked her life. The writer is a professor of international law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.