
According to a Norwegian doctor trying to provide medical assistance in Gaza, “Israeli impunity is a huge medical problem. The Israeli massacre in Shejalya, with Palestinian children carrying white flags and running for their lives from Israeli tanks and artillery, is reminiscent of the massacre in Warsaw. As a result, The Palestinians are the only refugees in the world that have been given hereditary refugee status. Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, in fact, began in 1948 with the “Nakba,” the “catastrophe,” when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from their homes during Nevertheless, the relentless and repetitively compulsive Israeli attacks over the past decade suggest that the Israelis are making innocent Palestinians pay for the savagery of the Germans 70 years ago. The Ghetto itself was almost entirely leveled during the uprising in 1943, when the Germans systematically burned and blew up the ghetto buildings, block by block, rounding up or murdering anybody they could capture. The death toll among the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto as a result of deportations to concentration camps and the razing of the Ghetto was more than 300,000. Of course, comparisons are never fully dispositive. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.” In 2010, British Prime Minister David Cameron said that “humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. The Israeli and Egyptian blockade of Gaza has devastated the economy and caused a shortage of basic medicines and medical equipment. UNEMPLOYMENT WAS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN THE WARSAW GHETTO, AND OVER 100,000 RESIDENTS OF THE GHETTO DIED DUE TO DISEASE OR STARVATION. As a result, the European Union and Human Rights Watch as well as agencies of the United Nations consider Gaza to remain occupied by Israel. It controls the movement of people and goods in or out of Gaza.

Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005, but maintains exclusive control of Gaza’s airspace and territorial waters. THE GERMANS CLOSED THE WARSAW GHETTO TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD IN 1940. The Gaza Strip is the largest Palestinian ghetto in the Middle East and among the most densely populated parts of the world.

THE WARSAW GHETTO WAS THE LARGEST OF ALL THE JEWISH GHETTOS IN NAZI-OCCUPIED EUROPE DURING WORLD WAR II.
