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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont

Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen
The letter accuses Israel of ‘starving the people of Gaza to death’. Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP

A group of high-profile Israeli public figures, including academics, artists and public intellectuals, has called for “crippling sanctions” to be imposed by the international community on Israel, amid mounting horror over its starvation of Gaza.

The 31 signatories of a letter to the Guardian include an Academy award recipient, Yuval Abraham; a former Israeli attorney general, Michael Ben-Yair; Avraham Burg, a former speaker of Israel’s parliament and former head of the Jewish Agency; and a number of recipients of the prestigious Israel prize, Israel’s highest cultural honour.

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