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Over 2000 artists call for immediate end of Israel's war crimes in Gaza

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 6:57 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 17 October 2023 6:57 PM ]

The family of a Palestinian child killed in an Israeli air strike mourn outside a hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 17, 2023. (AFP)

The West is "aiding and abetting" Israel's "war crimes" in the Gaza Strip, says a letter, which bears the signatures of more than two thousand artists, who demand an immediate end to the regime’s unprecedented cruelty being inflicted on Palestinians.

“We are witnessing a crime and a catastrophe," said the letter signed by artists that include famous novelists, singers, playwrights, filmmakers as well as famed actors and actresses.

"We are witnessing a crime and a catastrophe. Israel has reduced much of Gaza to rubble, and cut off the supply of water, power, food and medicine to 2.3 million Palestinians,” the letter said.

“Our governments are not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them," the signatories said "There will come a time when they are held to account for their complicity. “

The West, including the United States, Britain, Australia and France have expressed support for the Israeli regime, at a time when over 3000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombardments since October 7.

At least 500 civilians were killed in an air strike on a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. The attack came as thousands of Palestinians had taken shelter in the hospital.

Earlier in the day, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the world to stand united behind his occupying regime, during a joint press conference with visiting German chancellor, Olaf Scholz.

Netanyahu ordered the offensive against Gaza after Palestinian resistance fighters began Operation al-Aqsa Storm on October 7 in response to the occupying regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodshed and destruction against the Palestinians.

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