Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become a threat to world peace because of the massacres committed by the Israeli army against tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza, said Turkey‘s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan during a press appearance in Ankara yesterday with his Austrian counterpart Alexander Schallenberg, in which the Turkish foreign minister again called for more pressure from the international community to end the bloody Israeli offensive against the Palestinian enclave, which has already caused more than 35,000 civilian deaths, most of them women and children.
Fidan stressed that Israel is an expansionist and racist state that cannot bring stability to the Middle East, and that the international community must urgently take firm and decisive steps to stop it. “Israel is becoming much more alone and isolated,” said the Turkish minister, who did not hesitate to describe the Israeli state as an occupying force that has usurped Palestinian lands; in this sense, Fidan insisted that the current war between Israel and Hamas is a direct consequence of an Israeli occupation that has lasted for decades.
“There is an occupation (of Palestinian territories), and the international community has done nothing (to stop it). We in Turkey condemned the killing of civilians on 7 October (during the Hamas surprise attack). But the systematic killing of thousands of Palestinians by Israel, and turning a residential area (like Gaza) into an inhospitable region, is a crime against humanity. It is an act of genocide,” Fidan declared.
Referring to Israel’s plans to launch an offensive on Rafah in southern Gaza, home to more than a million Palestinian refugees who have found here the last shelter from Israeli bombardment of the rest of the Strip, the Turkish foreign minister reiterated the need to increase pressure on the Israeli prime minister to prevent him from carrying out his plans. “Netanyahu has become a threat to world peace,” Fidan concluded, warning of the risk of the conflict spreading to the rest of the Middle East and beyond.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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