Hundreds of writers and cultural organizations have signed a letter by qualifying the Israel War against Gaza as a genocidal and urging the immediate fire.
The 380 letter signatories include writers Ian Mcewan, Zadie Smith, Frank Cottrel-Boyce, William Dalrymple, Elif Shafak, Irvine Welsh and Kate Mosse.
“The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or by human rights organizations,” reads the letter, and it is added that the UN Human Rights Council has “clearly identified” the acts of genocide perpetrated by the Israeli army.
The letter was organized by the writers Horathio Clare, Kapka Kassabova and Monique Roffey.
The signatories claim: “It is not just our common humanity and all human rights; it is about our moral suitability as writers of our time, which decreases every day that we refuse to speak and denounce this crime.”
They add: “The words have been used too frequently to justify the unjustifiable, deny the undeniable, defend the indefensible. Too too often, the right words, those that mattered, have been eradicated, together with those who could have written them.”
Demanding sanctions against Israel
The letter cites a poem from the Palestinian poet Hiba Abu nothing, who died in an Israeli attack a year and seven months ago: “And if one day, oh light / all the galaxies / of the entire universe / they had no more space for us / you would say: ‘Enter my heart, / There you will finally be safe'”.
The letter demands sanctions against Israel if the Israeli government does not implement a high fire in Gaza, as well as the “immediate distribution and without food restrictions and medical aid throughout Gaza by the UN.”
This happens a day after more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired judges signed a letter asking Prime Minister Keir Starmer to sanction the Israeli government and take measures in the UN Security Council to expel Israel as a UN Member State.
A slow flow of cultural figures that have spoken against Israel after its military campaign in Gaza in October 2023 has been gaining more and more impulse.
This event occurs while the United Nations and humanitarian organisms warn of the risk of mass famine as Israel blocks the sending of aid to the besieged enclave.
Israel already faces charges of genocide in the International Court of Justice, and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is the subject of an arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and the crime of war to die of hunger as a method of war.
Fuente: Middle East Eye
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
