PEN International calls for global arms embargo on Israel over 'Gaza genocide'

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PEN International has called for an immediate arms embargo on Israel to prevent what it called the "ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza".

In a statement on Sunday, the organisation expressed outrage at the international community's failure to hold Israel accountable for the daily killing of civilians and suffocating blockade, and called for immediate action to end the assault.

PEN International collected testimonies from Palestinian writers across the occupied territories, which it said demonstrate "concerted and systematic efforts by Israel to erase the Palestinian people and their cultural heritage".

The NGO is the latest in a growing number of international organisations to designate Israel's attack on Gaza as a genocidal campaign.

The Israeli military's onslaught has killed at least 54,418 Palestinians over the past 20 months, with thousands of others believed to be trapped beneath the rubble.

More than three-quarters of all structures in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged, including 90 percent of the territory's housing units, most of its schools and hospitals, and dozens of religious and historical sites.

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