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Israel Minister Compares Gaza Destruction to Holocaust

HeadlineMay 24, 2004

In Israel, the country’s Justice Minister Yosef Lapid said Sunday that the Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip reminded him of actions the Nazis took against him family during World War II. The minister said seeing a picture of a Palestinian woman by the rubble of her old home reminded him “of my grandmother in the Holocaust.”

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