Türkiye is the world’s largest supporter of terrorism as a result of its backing of Hamas, Israel Katz has claimed
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ranks among the many worst anti-Semites in historical past due to his stance on the Gaza battle, Israeli International Minister Israel Katz has claimed.
In a speech on Saturday, Erdogan in contrast Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler, referring to the relentless IDF assaults on Gaza, which have killed at the least 30,960 individuals and wounded 72,524 others, in keeping with the well being ministry within the Palestinian enclave. He additionally once more refused to label Hamas a terrorist group, saying Ankara “firmly backs” the management of the Palestinian armed group.
Katz, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud Occasion, responded to the Turkish president’s remarks a couple of hours afterward X (previously Twitter), in each Hebrew and Turkish.
Hamas dedicated “murders and sexual assaults” throughout its incursion into Israel on October 7, through which greater than 1,100 individuals have been killed and a few 240 taken hostage, he mentioned, claiming that Erdogan’s help for the group makes him one “of the best oppressors and anti-Semites in historical past.”
Türkiye has turn out to be “the most important supporter of terrorism on the earth, together with Iran,” which brings “disgrace” on the nation, the diplomat insisted.
In his handle in Istanbul, Erdogan, who has been among the many harshest critics of Israel in current months, mentioned the management of the Jewish state was liable for “crimes in opposition to humanity” in Gaza.
“Netanyahu and his hateful administration have added their names to the record of ‘immediately’s Nazis’ alongside Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pol Pot, Franco and different assassins of the fashionable period,” he argued.
What is occurring in Gaza has “already surpassed the boundaries of tolerance,” the Turkish chief insisted. “Backed by the limitless navy and diplomatic help of Western powers, Israel, which is a state of terror, is finishing up an all-out coverage of genocide in opposition to our Palestinian brothers and sisters.”
Erdogan famous that Türkiye has already supplied some 40,000 tons of humanitarian support to the individuals of Gaza by air and sea. He urged the Muslim world to do extra to finish the hostilities, saying it has thus far “did not correctly fulfill its brotherly responsibility to the Palestinians.”
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Netanyahu insisted earlier this week that the mounting worldwide stress for a truce is not going to make Israel quit on its purpose of attaining “whole victory in battle” in opposition to Hamas.
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