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In 2023 it witnessed horrific massacres, along ethnic lines, which the US and others say amounted to genocide.

Despite the criticism levelled against him over the investigation into the Uchuraccay massacre, Vargas Llosa continued to expose state terror and abuse of power through literature.

"We are living through an industrial massacre," he added.

Hamas also said the Israeli military had "committed a bloody massacre".

Hamas said it fired the rockets in response to Israeli "massacres of civilians in Gaza", Reuters news agency reported.