Rachel Corrie's Parents Escape Abduction In Gaza

The Corrie family is making world headlines again after narrowly escaping a Palestinian attack near the Rafah border crossing. Of course you remember that their daughter Rachel Corrie was killed in that area by Israeli bulldozers while she was trying to prevent them from leveling Palestinian dwellings. The Corrie parents were visiting the Nasrallahs in Rafah (apparenlty they often do, as the two families tour and speak together) where there has been a rash of abductions in the wake of the Isreali pullout from Gaza and the recent arrest of a Palestinian accused of kidnapping three Britons in the area. Gunmen broke into the Nasrallah home intending to kidnap the Corries, but were chased off by a neighbor afflliated with Palestinian security forces.

Rachel Corrie was an Evergreen College student when she died in Gaza in 2003 during an International Solidarity Movement action to protect Palestinian homes.