ROME: : Award-winning Israeli author David Grossman called his country’s campaign in Gaza “genocide” and said he was using the term with a “broken heart.” This came days after a major Israeli rights group also used the same term, amid growing global alarm over starvation in the besieged territory. “For many years, I refused to use that term: ‘genocide’,” the prominent writer and peace activist told Italian daily La Repubblica in an interview published on Friday.

Lo scrittore israeliano ammette: "Con il cuore spezzato devo constatare che sta accadendo di fronte ai miei occhi"

Writer says for many years he has refused to use word but now must ‘with immense pain and with a broken heart’