Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Yahya Barakat | 94 minutes

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Rachel: an American conscience

Yahya Barakat 2005 docu 94 min.

I've been here for about a month and half now and this is definitely the
most difficult situation that I have ever seen. In the time that I have
been here, children have been shot and killed. On the 30th of January, the
Israeli military bulldozed the two largest water wells, destroying over
half of Rafah's water supply. Ever few days, if not everyday, houses are
demolished here.. so I feel like what I am witnessing here is a very
systematic destruction of peoples' ability to survive and that is
incredibly horrifying.

Yahya Barakat, who teaches at Al-Quds University, told The Washington
Report that he began work on the documentary the instant he learned that
Corrie had been crushed to death by an Israeli-driven Caterpillar
bulldozer.

This documentary offers rare footage of Rachel talking to a camera and
describing Israeli human rights violations against a Palestinian civilian
population. The film opens with grim images of dinosaur-like Caterpillar
bulldozers turning urban Rafah into a garbage pile of destroyed buildings.
It continues with interviews of Rachel's fellow International Solidarity
Movement volunteers, and concludes with comments from her parents
DVD. Rachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall, and international solidarity in
Palestine. List Price: $25.

Full feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IatIDytPeQ0

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