I have read credible testimonies of similar incidents mostly on a much smaller scale in the last 7 years, investigated and verified, sometimes even witnessed by human rights organizations. It is certainly in keeping with Israeli practices in the occupied territories. However, I will wait for more reports before I put this one in the "truth" column.

Certainly Gaza is a concentration camp of sorts, and all over the occupied territories malnutrition is at high levels as is "food insecurity" (a measure of people skipping meals, that is, going hungry). The occupied Palestinian territories are one of the few areas throughout the Middle East where many lack sufficient water to drink, cook and wash with, entirely due to Israeli policies. Gaza isn't like what the Nazis ran. They aren't running death factories (possibly they've made some experiments of technology on human beings http://www.vtjp.org/report/Timeline.htm, http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=1056... But then, every story of oppression and ethnic cleansing is different - and honestly, Israel is trying accomplish its ethnic cleansing without the world paying attention. Large-scale massacres might bring more of such unwanted attention.

No one knows how many civilians were murdered at Sabra&Chatila (see, for example, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article47... but it's certain that the Lebanese Phalangists (fascists) who did most of the slaughter were armed and assisted by the Israeli army, headed by Ariel Sharon had a clear sight of the camps while it was going on.

I find most curious people who deny that Palestine existed. Good grief, it's the place the crusaders invaded - the place is even mentioned in the Balfour declaration. But it kind of turns my stomach when people celebrate massacres, like the fellow who calls slaughtering however many thousands of helpless women, children and men at Sabra and Shatila a great victory.