Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that there was nothing left of the Gaza Strip due to Israel’s operation. His words at the joint press conference he held with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin are quoted as follows: RIA News.
Erdoğan noted that no one talked about what happened after October 7, but 13 thousand Palestinians, including children, women and the elderly, were killed.
“There is nothing left of the Gaza Strip,” the Turkish leader said.
Before this Erdogan statedHe said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be tried at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for the crime of genocide in Gaza.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. November 5, as part of the ground operation of IDF forces surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Formerly political scientist named One of the reasons why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict flared up.