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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ella Creamer

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

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From top left, clockwise: Jeanette Winterson, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith and Irvine Welsh. Composite: Getty and the Guardian

Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire.

“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 human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak.

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