A woman accused of trying to kill her three small children has told detectives she cut their throats with a kitchen knife to keep them quiet for her soldier husband.

Almost a decade after their daughter was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she tried to block its path in a Gaza Strip conflict zone, Rachel Corrie’s parents are preparing for a judge’s ruling in their high-profile civil lawsuit against the military.

THE parents of an American protester crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip got their first chance yesterday to hear from the man who drove the vehicle that killed her.

An American woman was killed today when she was run over by a bulldozer during a protest in Gaza against Israeli operations, witnesses and hospital officials said.