12/5/2024–|Last updated: 12/5/202402:07 PM (Mecca time)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the massacre is continuing in the Gaza Strip, and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached “a level of genocidal methods that would make the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler jealous.”
Erdogan added – in an interview with the Greek newspaper Kathimerini published on Sunday, the eve of the visit of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Ankara – that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) agreed to a ceasefire, but Israel is making excuses and does not want a ceasefire because of what he called its desire to occupy. The entire Gaza Strip.
This comes in the wake of Turkey’s recent decision to stop trading with Israel and its announcement to join South Africa’s lawsuit before the International Court of Justice against Tel Aviv regarding “genocide” in Gaza.
At the time, the Hamas movement welcomed – in a press statement – these Turkish steps, describing them as “brave decisions” and as “an extension and reflection of the position of the Turkish people in support of the struggle of the Palestinian people and their right to freedom and self-determination.”
Erdogan had previously attacked the Israeli government repeatedly as part of an escalation of his rhetoric against it against the backdrop of its war on the Gaza Strip, including describing Netanyahu late last month as “the Hitler of our era,” stressing that Netanyahu and his allies “will not escape punishment.”
In mid-November, the Turkish Foreign Ministry rejected statements and accusations made by Netanyahu and his former Foreign Minister Eli Cohen against the Turkish president.
This comes as the occupation forces continue their ground attack in the areas east of Rafah since last Monday, as part of their ongoing war on the Gaza Strip for more than 7 months, leaving tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded, amid a humanitarian situation described as catastrophic, and famine looming over the besieged Strip.