Türkiye to ensure those responsible for Gaza massacres face trial in international courts: Erdogan
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye will take steps to ensure that political and military leaders who massacred people in Gaza face trial in the international courts, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
Calling Israel a “terrorist state,” the Turkish leader accused Tel Aviv of implementing a strategy of destroying all of Gaza along with its residents.
Speaking at the Justice and Development (AK) Party’s parliamentary group meeting in Ankara, Erdogan addressed Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying: “You are threatening with an atomic bomb, a nuclear bomb. It does not matter what you have, you are a goner.”
If Israel continues its massacres, it will be seen everywhere in the world as a “universally condemned terrorist state,” he added.
“We never hesitate to say that Hamas (is made up of) resistance fighters striving to protect their homeland, despite the discomfort it may cause some.”
Erdogan added he would also talk to the leaders of countries that abstained from voting on an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza at the UN.
Israel launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip on October 7. It has killed at least 11,320 Palestinians, including nearly 7,800 women and children, and injured over 29,200 others, according to the latest figures from Palestinian authorities.
Thousands of buildings, including hospitals, mosques, and churches, have been damaged or destroyed in the Israeli offensive.
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