GAZA, (PIC)
The Hamas Movement welcomed Türkiye’s decision to join the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The Movement said in a statement on Wednesday “this step is an affirmation of the support of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the brotherly Turkish people for our legitimate national cause and the rights of our people who have been subjected to a genocidal war for more than ten months.”
The Movement called on all countries of the world, especially the Arab and Muslim states, “to immediately join South Africa’s case and to form a unified front to end the Nazi occupation of our occupied lands, and to terminate its threat to security and peace in the region.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Türkiye announced its official submission of a bid to join the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel at the ICJ.
The Chairman of the Turkish Parliament’s justice Committee, Cuneyt Yuksel, said that his country “will provide evidence of the ethnic cleansing committed by the Israeli army and its massacres in the Gaza Strip,” accusing Israel of using starvation and thirst as a weapon against the population there.
Yuksel added in a press conference before the court that there is conclusive evidence of Israel committing genocide against the Palestinians, stressing his country’s support for the Palestinian cause, and expressing his optimism that the court will be able to force Israel to abide by its resolutions.
On December 29, 2023 South Africa filed a genocide case at the International Court of Justice against Israeli regarding its war crimes and violations carried out in the Gaza Strip.
