Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today that Israel is a “terrorist state” committing war crimes and violating international law in Gaza and reiterated that Hamas is not a terrorist organization but rather a political party elected by the Palestinians.
In his speech to MPs in Parliament, Erdogan (pictured above Sabah) also called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to announce whether or not Israel possesses nuclear bombs, adding that the Israeli Prime Minister has “lost his mind.”
“Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but rather a political party elected by the Palestinians.”
He added that Turkey will work on the international scene to ensure that illegal Israeli settlers are recognized as “terrorists” during the escalating violence in the occupied West Bank.
“A flagrant violation of international law”
Erdogan’s statements came in light of the raid launched by the Israeli army on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the Israeli army of “blatant violation” of international law, and called for “international intervention to protect civilians there.”
Meanwhile, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi denounced that the Israeli operation in Sifah “demonstrates the brutality permitted by the silence of the UN Security Council.”
There are about 2,300 people inside Sifah, according to the United Nations, including patients, health workers and displaced people.
“We condemn the silence of the Security Council regarding these atrocities. This silence covers up war crimes. This silence cannot be accepted or justified. He stressed in a post on Platform X that the Council must act, denouncing the “disaster” in the hospital.
About 2,300 people, according to the United Nations, including patients, health workers, and people displaced by the war, live inside Al-Sifah in miserable conditions, without water or electricity.
The Israeli army accuses Hamas of using the hospital as a military base, which the Palestinian movement denies.
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