Jakarta - The anti-Israel activists who fight for Palestine, innumerable. But some of them remembered by the world community.
Long struggle for Palestinian activists began to siphon attention of the international community since the death of Rachel Corrie. American Girl is a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), who was killed because of Israeli bulldozer crushed in Rafah, the Gaza Strip.
Corrie was killed on March 16, 2003 when it became a shield of life for the bulldozers to demolish Palestinian settlements. When it was happening the second Intifada or second tension between Israel and Palestine. Beginning in 2003, he was in Israel, and then follow the exercise with the ISM in the West Bank.
Zionist military claimed the bulldozer crushed Corrie because the driver did not see him standing in front of the vehicle's weight. Though Corrie wore a bright orange rompie and bring megaphones to shout to the driver.
According to a colleague who also witnessed Corrie's death, Joe Carr, Corrie knelt down before the bulldozers. He shouted and waved his hand, as is usually done and successful activists. Carr said, the driver must have seen it already. But still grind Corrie.
"Whether a sickening error or a brutal murder," Carr said shortly after the incident, when the media interviewed the UK, Channel 4.
An activist and British student Tom Hurndall, also suffered a similar fate. He was shot in the head on April 11, 2003 by Israeli sniper. Hurndall when it was trying to help a Palestinian mother and her children to save themselves from Israeli bullets whir.
The young man was shot in Rafah, Gaza Strip, not far from the family home that she wanted to help. When killed, Hurndall was wearing a vest like Corrie and according to eyewitnesses, there was no exchange of fire between the Israel-Palestine. After lying a coma in hospital for nine months, Hurndall finally breathed last on January 13, 2004.
Journalists too often the innocent victims of Israel. Like the late James Henry Dominic Miller, a British journalist who was shot dead on May 2, 2003. Men who never won an Emmy Awards Zionist sniper targets while making a documentary in Rafah.
At night he was killed, along with one of Miller's colleagues sineasnya, Saira Shah and few other colleagues are walking away after a visit with Palestinian families in Rafah refugee camp. Approximately 20 meters from the veranda, the first shots sounded.
Shah immediately started shouting that they are a British journalist and a friend of Miller's English passport lifted. But moments later the second shot is heard and about Miller's neck which killed instantly. The bullet was fired within a range that is not up to 200 meters.
Again, dodge Israeli military, said the soldier who shot him thought that Miller and his friends as Palestinian militants and a shootout. "We're sorry. Please note that journalists who enter the territory of war endanger himself," they said in a statement.
American activists, Tristan Anderson was killed because the mission of liberation of Gaza, on March 13, 2009, in the City of Naalin, the West Bank. Anderson's face and forehead was crushed because battered cans of tear gas that deliberately fired at him by Israel's paramilitary border police.
While Israeli-Palestinian peace could not arrive, the number of activists who were killed continues to grow. Hundreds of activists belonging to the missions to Gaza or the Freedom Flotilla Flotilla not be the last. This, of course, depend on the attitude of international governments.
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