If Israel continues its massacres, it will be seen everywhere in world as ‘universally condemned terrorist state,’ says Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Türkiye will take steps to ensure that political and military leaders who “ruthlessly” massacred people in Gaza face trial in the international courts, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.
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.
“Those who kill babies in incubators, those who rain bombs on innocent people they have displaced from their homes, those who condemn people to death by cutting off their water, food, and fuel, those who talk about destroying over 2 million civilians with an atomic bomb…”
“No matter how many nuclear bombs you have or whatever you possess, you are on your way out. Those who have lost everything in terms of ethics, conscience, and honor are not human; they can only be monsters.”
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.
“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.”
Criticizing the approach of Western countries towards the Israel-Palestine conflict, Erdogan stressed that Israel, with unlimited support from the US and the West, has been continuing its massacres for continuous 40 days.
“You label Hamas as a terrorist organization. Hamas is a political party that participated in elections to win in Palestine.”
“After winning the election, you took away its rights. Israel and America did it together. Let’s see these facts. But still, there are people even in my country who don’t know or understand that Hamas is a political party.”
Nearly two-thirds of the around 12,000 Gazans killed by Israel so far were children and women, said Erdogan, adding that Israel has launched the most “treacherous attacks” in the history of humanity against people in Gaza.
“All concepts, including war, are insufficient to describe what we have witnessed in Gaza for the past 40 days. Because even war has its ethics, manners, laws, and limits.”
He emphasized that the first rule of the laws of war is not to harm children, women, the elderly, and the sick
source: Anadolu Agency
