Al Sho’bi’s family home without warning in an IDF attack in the middle of the night. In April 2002, a D9 bulldozer destroyed Mr. The Al Sho’bi family: Mahmoud Omar Al Sho’bi is from Nablus in the West Bank. Much of the world community, including the United Nations, has condemned these demolitions as clear violations of international humanitarian law. Thousands of Palestinians, including the families we represented in this lawsuit, have lost loved ones to IDF home demolitions. In the first four years of the second intifada, the IDF used bulldozers to destroy more than 4,000 Palestinian homes. The practice of home demolitions, forced expulsion and land seizures increased dramatically after the second intifada began in September 2000, and continues to this day. executives decrying the use of its bulldozers to carry out human rights abuses. Since 2001, human rights groups have sent over 50,000 letters to Caterpillar, Inc. has known about the human rights abuses committed with its bulldozers since at least 1989, when human rights groups began publicly condemning the violations. The bulldozers are provided to the Israeli government at the expense of U.S. The Caterpillar D9 bulldozer is more than 13 feet tall and 26 feet wide, weighs more than 60 tons with its armored plating, and can raze houses in a matter of minutes. has supplied the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) with D9 bulldozers to demolish Palestinian homes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, leaving thousands of families homeless. The case is representative of CCR’s commitment to challenge human rights violations against civilians in Palestine, whether they are committed by the Israeli government or corporations complicit in those violations. Corrie, a 23-year old American human rights defender, was crushed to death by a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer in 2003 as she attempted to defend a Palestinian family’s home from being demolished by the Israeli military while the family was inside.
on behalf of the parents of Rachel Corrie and four Palestinian families whose relatives were killed or injured when Caterpillar bulldozers demolished their homes. Caterpillar was a federal lawsuit filed against Illinois-based Caterpillar, Inc.
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