‘GAZA is probably not high on most people’s list of holiday destinations - and the latest move by the Israeli army is hardly going to boost visitor numbers.
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According to the Guardian, it is now obliging foreigners entering the occupied territory to sign a waiver absolving the army of blame if it shoots them.
Visitors, it says, must also declare that they are not peace activists.
Tom Hurndall, a peace activist, was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier in Gaza last month and is now in a coma with severe brain damage.
His crime? Trying to protect a small child from gunfire.
Another Brit, cameraman James Miller, was killed in a Gaza refugee camp - almost certainly, according to an autopsy, by an Israeli soldier.
The British Government is demanding a criminal investigation into both shootings.
In the meantime, the indiscriminate shooting of Palestinians continues. They don’t even get to sign waiver forms.
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