A Jewish MP has compared Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland.
Sir Gerald Kaufman said the Israeli government was 'ruthlessly and cynically' exploiting the guilt over the Holocaust as justification for the assault on Gaza.
'My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed,' he told MPs. 'My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza.'
His comments came as a UN compound filled with refugees was hit by Israeli shells, injuring three workers.
Sir Gerald, who was raised as an orthodox Jew and Zionist, insisted that Hamas was a 'deeply nasty organisation' but said Israel could not just refuse to talk to it.
But Israeli embassy spokesman Lior Ben Dor said: 'Many of the soldiers who are now defending the state of Israel in Gaza also had grandmothers who suffered at the hands of the Nazis.
'The soldiers are fighting so when they are grandparents they will not be subjected to cruel enemies like Gerald Kaufman's grandmother was.'
The attack on the UN compound caused a 'massive explosion', set fuel in the compound on fire, destroyed tons of humanitarian supplies and forced hundreds of refugees to flee.
UN spokesman Chris Gunness said the shells contained prohibited white phosphorus as it was impossible to put out the flames by conventional means.
Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert said troops had come under fire from militants in the compound but that was dismissed by UN official John Ging as 'nonsense'.
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