Two British MPs compare Gaza to Warsaw's Jewish ghetto in Nazi era

“Gaza is the same in nature as the Warsaw ghetto,” said Labour MP Oona King, and a member of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality.

“As a Jewish person I hoped I would never live to see the day I was ashamed of the actions of the Jewish state,” she told a press conference, adding no government should be acting like Israel was.

But she said Israel's treatment of the Palestinians was “the same in nature, but not extent.”

“There is a very, very big difference. Palestinians are not being rounded up and put in gas chambers,” she cautioned.

“But what makes it similar is what happened to the Jewish people in that time, which was the seizing of land, being forced from property, torture and bureaucracy — control used in a demeaning way over the smallest task.

“On top of that building a wall around them and that is precisely what the Israeli government is doing. In doing so it is building a political ghetto. I don't think it can escape that conclusion.

Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Tonge also compared the situation to the Warsaw ghetto saying the people in the Gaza Strip could not move in and out.

“They can't work, they can't sell anything. There is this gradual squeeze. ... I feel it was an apartheid system and it is certainly getting worse — the area where the Palestinians live is getting smaller.”

In 1940, several months after invading Poland in September 1939, the Nazis forced some 500,000 Jews into the Warsaw ghetto, surrounding it with a high wall.

About 100,000 died inside from hunger and disease, and more than 300,000 were sent to death camps, mainly Treblinka in eastern Poland, where they were killed.