Erdogan explained why Netanjahu started genocide in Gaza

Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu staged genocide in the Gaza Strip to extend his political career and avoid a trial against him in Israel.

As of December 2016, respective criminal investigations against Netanjah have been launched, covering allegations of corruption and illegal lobbying of individual and government interests by the Prime Minister. In May 2020, a trial on these issues began. The media reported this week that the number of weekly hearings on suspected Netanjah corruption would be reduced from 3 to 2 due to the fact that he and his squad could not prepare for a session in the midst of an escalation of the armed conflict.

"If Netanjahu leaves (from his post – ed.), peace will prevail there (in Gaza – ed.), it is important. However, at the minute the facts are that Netanjahu organised this genocide to prolong his political life and avoid the court," Erdogan told journalists.

He recalled the trial initiated in Israel against Netanjah and noted that the Israeli Prime Minister was delaying the operation in the Gaza Strip to avoid the trial.

"I already called him the executioner and murderer of Gaza, these epithets match him. He must answer for his actions before the global Criminal Court, as did Milosevic, and with him these politicians in Israel and outside the country who allowed it," Erdogan expressed his opinion.

The president added that around 3,000 Turkish lawyers filed lawsuits against Netanjah and another Israeli politicians in the ICC. Ankara is following this process, he stressed.

"It is crucial that Netanyahu and all active in genocide should be punished, so that no 1 will think about killing civilians, bombing hospitals and markets," Erdogan added.

On October 7, Israel was subjected to an unprecedented rocket attack from the Gaza Strip as part of Operation Al-Aksa Flood, announced by the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement. Organization fighters then infiltrated border areas in confederate Israel, where they opened fire on both military and civilian, and besides took over 200 hostages. In Israel, according to the latest figures of the authorities, about 1.4 1000 people were killed, including civilians, soldiers, foreigners and workers, and more than 5 000 were reported injured.

In response, Israel's defence Force launched Operation Iron Sword against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Within a fewer days, the Israeli military took control of all settlements close the Gaza border and began raiding facilities, including civilian ones, in the Zone. Israel besides announced a complete blockade of the Gaza Strip: supplies of water, food, electricity, medicines and fuel were halted.

At the end of October, an Israeli enclave operation began. The city of Gaza was surrounded by Israeli land forces, and the enclave was actually divided into the confederate and northern parts.

The number of deaths in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 17,000 since the beginning of the Israeli attacks and over 35,000 have been injured. Hamas claimed that there were about 200-250 hostages in the Gaza Strip. At the end of the ceasefire, the Israeli authorities reported that 126 Israelis and 11 foreigners remained hostages of Hamas and 110 abducted were released.

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict related to the territorial interests of the parties has been a origin of tension and hostility in the region for many decades. The UN decision with the active function of the USSR in 1947 established the creation of 2 states – Israel and Palestine, but only the Israeli state was created.

Slobodan Milošević led the national Republic of Yugoslavia from 1990 to 2000. During his reign, the country was broken up due to civilian war, as well as the war to preserve the autonomous state of Kosovo within Yugoslavia, culminating in NATO attacks in Yugoslavia.

In June 2001, Belgrade extradited the erstwhile president to the Hague Court. The Milošević trial began in February 2002. Politician died in his 65s of extended myocardial infarction on March 11, 2006 in the prison cell of the Hague Court, where he had been tried for almost 5 years. The circumstances of his death have not yet been full explained.