Salt in the wound: Vatican compares Gaza to "concentration camp"

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which monitors anti-Semitism and tracks down Nazi war criminals, attacked Cardinal Martino for making remarks that were “untrue, distort the memory of the Holocaust and are only used against Israel by terrorist organizations and Holocaust deniers”.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the centre, said: “The cardinal should know that however difficult conditions may be in Gaza, the one thing it surely is not is a concentration camp where Jews were brought to die either by slave labour, starvation, or in most cases burned in the crematorium.”