Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today that Israel will pay for the “genocide it is committing” against the Palestinians, a year after Hamas attacks triggered an Israeli offensive in Gaza.
“Israel will sooner or later pay the price for the genocide it has been committing for a year and continues to commit,” Erdogan wrote in a message posted on social media.
Hamas and other Palestinian extremist factions attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in an unprecedented action that caused around 1,200 deaths and 251 hostages who were taken to Gaza, according to Israel.
Israel responded to the attack with an offensive in the Gaza Strip that has since caused around 42,000 deaths, according to the government of the enclave controlled by Hamas since 2007.
More than 740 Palestinians have also been killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, under Israeli occupation.
“Since exactly 365 days ago, 50,000 of our brothers and sisters, mostly children and women, have been brutally murdered,” said Erdogan, quoted by the French news agency AFP.
“Just as Hitler was stopped by the alliance of humanity, [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and his murderous network will be stopped in the same way,” he continued.
Erdogan, who considers Hamas a “resistance group”, has been one of Israel's most critical voices over the past year.
Unlike Turkey, Israel, the United States and the European Union consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization.
For the Turkish President, “all of humanity has been murdered live, before the eyes of the world, for a year”.
Thousands of people demonstrated in Istanbul on Sunday in support of Palestine and in protest against Israeli retaliation in Gaza, which the Turkish authorities have called genocide and a crime against humanity.
The protests were called by platforms in solidarity with the Palestinians, including groups close to Erdogan's ruling AKP party and Islamist organizations.
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