With a “broken heart,” award-winning Israeli author David Grossman referred to his nation’s assault in Gaza as “genocide.”
Days earlier, as international concern about malnutrition in the besieged enclave grew, a significant Israeli rights organization also used the same term.
“For many years, I refused to use that term: ‘genocide’,” the well-known author and peace activist said in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica that was released on Friday.
“But now, after the images I have seen and after talking to people who were there, I can’t help using it.”
The paper was informed by Grossman that he was using the phrase “with immense pain and with a broken heart.”
