A similar account was offered by Sarah Irving, of the Bethlehem-based International Solidarity Movement.
"Things here are shifting again slightly, but not enough. There are still large numbers of wounded in Manger Square in the centre of the old city, and many dead lying in the streets or in houses from which they cannot be removed; the family who had two members killed by a tank shell have managed to get them out]. The mosque, in which people were hiding, was shelled by tanks, and there are 150-200 holed up in the Church of the Nativity; we've just spoken to one of them and no medics have been allowed through but nuns have been attending the injured.
"(The) injured in Deheishe refugee camp have also been denied access to hospital, and we've just watched from our window as Israeli troops surrounded and searched a Red Crescent ambulance. Another ambulance was crushed by a tank this morning in Beit Kala. A group of internationals attempted to accompany an ambulance to Manger Square to get humanitarian aid to those trapped, but they were fired on; apparently the Israelis had chosen (without telling anyone) that they would use their clocks and not Palestinian time to time the curfew and thus decided to shoot at people ...
"In Ramallah, a group of 2,000 Israelis (Gush Shalom) and Arab Israelis attempting to deliver food and medical supplies were stopped and heavily tear-gassed. One truck of aid was allowed through, but the soldiers then emptied it and stamped on the medical supplies, leaving the food on the ground."
Of course, Deheishe is certainly not Dachau, but by today's standards, is there really that much of a difference? While there may be validity to a charge that this analogy is too extreme to be considered a fair one, that wouldn't mitigate the irony stemming from an effort by survivors of attempted genocide to impose on others, a similar form of ethnic containment.
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