The family of Rachel Corrie is suing Caterpillar Inc. and the Israeli defense establishment, over her death in March, 2003. Corrie, protesting IDF home demolitions with the International Solidarity Movement as a human shield, was accidentally run over by an army bulldozer looking for smuggling tunnels.
The federal lawsuit, which lawyers said would be filed here Tuesday, alleges that Caterpillar violated international and state law by providing specially designed bulldozers to Israeli Defense Forces that it knew would be used to demolish homes and endanger people.
Caterpillar is the preferred bulldozer of the Palestinian Authority.
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