International literary stars have signed an Israeli-led campaign to condemn the destruction of Palestinian villages in the southern Hebron hills.
The campaign was initiated by Israeli author David Grossman last June and has been backed by Nobel laureates, poets and playwrights around the world.
Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who died last week, signed the petition alongside Nobel literature laureates J M Coetzee, Mario Vargas Llosa, Herta Mueller and Orhan Pamuk. Established writers Julian Barnes, Michael Chabon, Ian McEwan Nathan Englander, Aleksandar Hemon, Yann Martel, Colum McCann and Philip Roth are also signatories.
The petition said villagers “have suffered from constant abuse by the army and by settlers.
