DAVID BERNSTEIN sends a link to this story from the New York Times and notes:
Israel says it blocked access to aid groups because of danger from booby traps. The aid folks accused Israel of making up lame excuses. Well: “As relief agency officials and human rights activists swarmed around the camp, an Israeli Arab doctor stepped on something that exploded, blowing him
off his feet. Writhing in agony and bleeding from the leg, Wael Omari, part of a delegation of physicians, was stretchered away to an ambulance by shocked colleagues. The blast was a sharp reminder of the dangers posed by unexploded ordnance and booby-traps.”
Yes. Although strangely the Times story doesn’t mention that the aid groups had failed to take the Israeli warnings seriously. But we do get this quote from an ICRC staffer: “It took six days for the Israeli army to let us into the camp, but now we have fairly free access on a daily basis.”