It would be catastrophic all around. Amy israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to move ahead with plans to attack rafah where over 1. 4 million palestinians are seeking refuge. We will go to rafah to speak with Mohammed Abu Lebda, a poet and translator who used to translate poets like Edgar Allan Poe but now translates for the International Medical corps. Then we remember u. S. Peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed 21 years ago when she was crushed to death by an Israeli Military bulldozer in rafah as she tried to prevent the demolition of the home of a palestinian pharmacist. The bulldozer proceeded toward rachel. She took a position indicating she was not going to move. She was in an orange jacket. When they kept coming, she rose on the mound and the out mrs. Testified her head rose above the top of the blade of the bulldozer so she could clearly be seen by the bulldozer continued and proceeded over her. Amy we will speak with Rachel Corries parents who devoted t
It would be catastrophic all around. Amy israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to move ahead with plans to attack rafah where over 1. 4 million palestinians are seeking refuge. We will go to rafah to speak with Mohammed Abu Lebda, a poet and translator who used to translate poets like Edgar Allan Poe but now translates for the International Medical corps. Then we remember u. S. Peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed 21 years ago when she was crushed to death by an Israeli Military bulldozer in rafah as she tried to prevent the demolition of the home of a palestinian pharmacist. The bulldozer proceeded toward rachel. She took a position indicating she was not going to move. She was in an orange jacket. When they kept coming, she rose on the mound and the out mrs. Testified her head rose above the top of the blade of the bulldozer so she could clearly be seen by the bulldozer continued and proceeded over her. Amy we will speak with Rachel Corries parents who devoted t
It would be catastrophic all around. Amy israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to move ahead with plans to attack rafah where over 1. 4 million palestinians are seeking refuge. We will go to rafah to speak with Mohammed Abu Lebda, a poet and translator who used to translate poets like Edgar Allan Poe but now translates for the International Medical corps. Then we remember u. S. Peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed 21 years ago when she was crushed to death by an Israeli Military bulldozer in rafah as she tried to prevent the demolition of the home of a palestinian pharmacist. The bulldozer proceeded toward rachel. She took a position indicating she was not going to move. She was in an orange jacket. When they kept coming, she rose on the mound and the out mrs. Testified her head rose above the top of the blade of the bulldozer so she could clearly be seen by the bulldozer continued and proceeded over her. Amy we will speak with Rachel Corries parents who devoted t
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