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  • 16 SEPTEMBER 2024
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Turkey vows to hold Israel accountable for Rafah strikes

Turkey vowed today to do "whatever is necessary" to hold Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials accountable for the attacks on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Turkey vows to hold Israel accountable for Rafah strikes
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12:34 - 27/05/24 por Lusa

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"As Turkey, we will do everything in our power to hold these barbarians and murderers who have nothing to do with humanity accountable," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.

The Turkish leader was referring to an Israeli strike on a camp for the displaced in the northwest of Rafah that killed 50 people, according to the government of the Palestinian extremist group Hamas in Gaza.

The Israeli military confirmed the airstrike on the Tal al-Sultan area, "based on precise intelligence" and targeting two senior Hamas officials, Yassin Rabia and Khaled Nagar.

"This massacre, which took place after the International Court of Justice [ICJ] demanded an end to the attacks, once again revealed the cruel and treacherous face of the terrorist state," Erdogan said.

"Like Hitler, Milosevic [president of the former Yugoslavia], Karadzic [Serb leader of Bosnia] and other pharaohs of history whom they admire, they will not be able to avoid being cursed," he added.

The ICJ on Friday ordered Israel to immediately cease its attacks in Rafah and allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip without any restrictions.

The rulings of the UN court, based in The Hague, Netherlands, are binding, but the ICJ has no means of enforcing them.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA on Monday denounced the Israeli bombing as a "bloody and terrifying night".

"There were attacks on a civilian camp in the Tal al-Sultan area, where MSF runs a stabilization center for the wounded," the organization's medical coordinator in Gaza, Martina Marchio, said in a statement.

Marchio said that as a result of the "multiple bombings" in Rafah, MSF staff received 28 dead and around 100 wounded.

"We are horrified by these latest events, which show once again that there is no safe place in Gaza," she said, quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE.

UNRWA said on social media that the attacks on "families seeking refuge" were appalling.

"Gaza is hell on earth. Last night's images are further proof of this," the UN agency said.

Israel and Hamas have been at war since a Palestinian attack on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, killed around 1,200 people and took two hundred hostages, according to the authorities in Tel Aviv.

The Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, launched after the attack, has killed almost 36,000 people, according to Hamas.

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