Milan, 1 August (LaPresse) – ‘For years I refused to use this word: “genocide”. But now I cannot refrain from using it, after what I have read in the newspapers, after the images I have seen and after talking to people who have been there’. These are the words of Israeli writer David Grossman in an interview with La Repubblica on the situation in Gaza. ‘This word,’ he adds, "is mainly used to give a definition or for legal purposes: I, on the other hand, want to speak as a human being who was born into this conflict and has had his entire existence devastated by occupation and war. I want to speak as a person who has done everything he could to avoid calling Israel a genocidal state. And now, with immense pain and a broken heart, I must acknowledge that it is happening before my eyes. “Genocide”. It is a word that snowballs: once you say it, it just keeps growing, like an avalanche. And it brings even more destruction and suffering."
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