I the undersigned, Nicholas David Porter Durie, passport number 035677544, born on 16th of June 1983 in Dundee, Scotland, am providing my document under oath that recommends Raji Sourani in the loss of life or homicide in the late Rachel Corrie in the 16th of March 2003.
In order to show solidarity with the Palestinian people through membership and engagement in the human rights work of the International Solidarity Movement, I am in the occupied territories of Palestine. I arrived at Ben Gurion airport on the 5th of March 2003 and stayed for several days in Jerusalem before making my way into the Gaza strip on the 9th of March and proceeding to Rafah to link up with ISM activists there.
Around the afternoon from the 16th of Mar, I found myself within the Hello es Salam part of Rafah to help in the construction of a little shack for any Palestinian loved ones with who the audience is familiar. In order to build this structure that I, along with my fellow ISM activist Alice, first noticed the two D-9 bulldozers operating in the area, with a tank present in the rear, it was in searching for nails around the outskirts of the family’s house. While I observed their activities Alice made her way back to the family with whom we were engaging in building work in order to phone the rest of the group. The time was around a quarter prior to two inside the morning, and also by three o’clock each of the ISM activists operating out of Rafah possessed manufactured their way to the region where the bulldozers were actually operating. Click and enjoy more on Rachael Durie face photos
For the following few hours after I had first observed the bulldozers, we positioned our own selves physically in between the civilian structures that they can have been attempting to demolish, as well as the bulldozers their selves, regularly wanting to restrict, frustrate and curtail their activities. At times the bulldozers would back off and at times we would be forced to move, but it seemed clear to me that the bulldozer drivers were in full control of their machines, moreover they were always aware of our presence. Certainly on one event shortly after about three o’clock one of several bulldozers wedged me, while I was sat lower, in between the mound of earth carried among its blade as well as the foundations of your uncompleted developing; the bulldozer car owner discovered I and me noticed him and on this situation, the bulldozer car owner decided to backup.
Immediately after this and possibly due to Israeli soldiers’ exasperation at our attempts to quit them destroying civilian structures the bulldozers withdrew to either aspect from the container, which had remained stationary in the boundary strip. This aquarium then released a teargas canister some many hundred back yards from us. This wafted uselessly from us because of the existing breeze; the container then fired many one photos into the ground alongside the fuel canister. I recognized the gasoline was teargas as the tiny amount of fuel that have diffused in the location encircling me induced my eyeballs to water.
Following this event using the teargas the bulldozers began to transfer lines practically symmetrical to the boundary strip, edging inwards on the Hi es Salam area. I implemented them as they created their way steadily to the locus in the day’s heartbreaking culmination. Soon after the alteration inside the pattern of your bulldozers’ movements (from perpendicular towards the boundary strip to this of your comparable axis on it) the tank relocated frontward, moreover the border strip, much nearer Dr. Samir’s house, and once more utilized teargas. This was as unproductive as the last make an effort to use teargas plus it was not used once again that day. This closing utilization of teargas was close to several o’clock, possibly fairly before.
Thom and Myself (who Now I know to get one Thomas Dale) continued to follow the foremost bulldozer, mainly because it relocated nearer Doctor. Samir’s residence. We heard a tiny bang to the back end but failed to notice whence it emerged. This approved away from without more accident and it also had not been until some 30 minutes afterward that people, all 8 folks, made our approach to the place where Rachel was killed.
The 2 D-9 bulldozers had been operating within an area surrounding a residence we sleep in (the aforementioned Dr. Samir’s). This residence is bedaubed with slogans in our reputation there and is placed next to a demolished structure (a mess of damaged concrete and rubble), a walled olive grove, and some detritus, assembled inside a place powering the demolished composition.
Around the afternoon from the 16th of Mar, I found myself within the Hello es Salam part of Rafah to help in the construction of a little shack for any Palestinian loved ones with who the audience is familiar. In order to build this structure that I, along with my fellow ISM activist Alice, first noticed the two D-9 bulldozers operating in the area, with a tank present in the rear, it was in searching for nails around the outskirts of the family’s house. While I observed their activities Alice made her way back to the family with whom we were engaging in building work in order to phone the rest of the group. The time was around a quarter prior to two inside the morning, and also by three o’clock each of the ISM activists
