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Gazans mourn U.S. protester killed by an IDF bulldozer
By Reuters

GAZA - Palestinians held a symbolic funeral yesterday for U.S. student Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer as she protested the demolition of a house in the southern Gaza Strips's Rafah refugee camp.

Holding a stretcher draped with an American flag, some 1,000 Palestinians marched through the refugee camp as a sign of mourning for the 23-year-old American who was killed on Sunday.

"We fly a U.S. flag today to show our support to all American peace lovers - those like Rachel," said Palestinian farmer Hassan Abu Toa'ma, 24.

It was a rare change of pace for Rafah, where American flags have more often been burned than held in reverence since the Palestinian uprising began in late September 2000.

Corrie was suffocated when one of the bulldozers piled sand on her body after she lay down in front of the vehicle to block its path.

The IDF described the incident as "a regrettable accident," and said that because the driver's vision had been hampered by the small armored windows of the vehicle, he hadn't seen Corrie as he went about his work.

Corrie, a student from Evergreen State College, had been in Gaza trying to prevent house demolitions for two months as a member of the International Solidarity Movement. She was from Olympia, Washington.

In Gaza City, dozens of Palestinian and foreign activists held a vigil for Corrie, holding banners saying, "Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is a war criminal."

School children befriended by Corrie during her time in Rafah filed past the American woman's body at the local morgue. Friends said Corrie's parents were coming to Gaza to retrieve the body.

"They want her remains to be left untouched until they come," said a friend of Corrie
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