The management accepts no responsibility for you getting shot.

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Israel restricts Gaza access

Foreigners and Israeli civilians entering the Gaza Strip will have to sign waiver forms absolving the army of responsibility if they're killed or injured in military operations.

The form requires all foreigners, including United Nations relief workers, to acknowledge they are entering an unsafe area.

They must also declare that they are not peace activists.

The move comes after the deaths of a number of foreign journalists and human rights activists in Israel, particularly those from the International Solidarity Movement whose volunteers work as human shields in the Palestinian territories.

It also follows a demand from the British Government for an Israeli investigation into the death of British cameraman James Miller, who was shot dead last week while making a documentary in a Gaza refugee camp.

'In harms way'

The document warns visitors that they are not permitted to approach security fences next to Jewish settlements or enter Israeli military zones in the Rafah refugee camp, where Miller was killed on Saturday.

Miller's death follows the shooting of ISM activist, Tom Hurndall, who is currently in a coma with severe brain damage. He was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier as he protected a child on the way home from school, witnesses said.

A British Parliament committee has said it is considering an investigation into recent events in the Middle East, including the shootings of Miller and Mr Hurndall.

Another ISM activist, American Rachel Corrie, was killed in March after being crushed by an Israeli bulldozer.

The Israeli army has expressed regret for each incident, but said the activists had put themselves in harm's way.

'Terror' claim denied

According to reports in the Israeli Haaretz newspaper, senior military and foreign ministry officials met this week to discuss means of expelling the activists.

There were also recent reports that two alleged British suicide bombers - one of whom is said to have detonated a bomb in Tel Aviv last month which killed three people - had attended ISM meetings.

The ISM says that it had never knowingly had associations with Palestinians affiliated with militant, political or religious groups.

Its members told the BBC they did meet the two Britons but were not aware of their intentions.

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

I mean, for God's sake. Really. Why don't they just cut to the chase, wall up Gaza, send a division of troops in and re-enact the slaughter of Beziers? That'd settle the question once and for all - a final solution to the Palestinian problem.

What kind of message are they sending? That if you step into Gaza you're fair game for any psycho IDF trooper with an itchy trigger finger? That if you're a peace activist it's open season on you? That the soldiers not only are not responsible if they cap your ass for no good reason - but they don't have to be?

Gunfire is not a natural phenomenon. It is not acid rain. It is not lightning. It is not a meteor shower. It is accomplished by one fucker pointing the barrel of a gun at another fucker and pulling the trigger. It is an act that, for the most part, has a directing mind behind it. Unless shells are raining down all the time and automatic fire is being tossed around constantly, there is no good excuse for being negligent or reckless when you're waving a firearm around. Gaza is not even a de facto warzone. And no piece of goddamn waiver can take away the moral responsibility not to shoot at someone who's not armed.

And the IDF say they're not the terrorists?