Erdogan accuses US of ‘complicity’ in Israel’s alleged war crimes in Gaza Strip

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11 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused his US counterpart Joe Biden of “complicity” in possible war crimes that Israel is committing in the Gaza Strip, where attacks have already killed more than 38,300 people in nine months.

“There is no war between Israel and Gaza, but Israel’s attacks on Gaza, which do not respect human rights or international law,” Erdogan said in response to questions from Newsweek magazine, during the NATO summit taking place in Washington.

In this regard, Erdogan has criticized the United States for ignoring the “violations” that Israel commits in the Gaza Strip against the Palestinians, who “are simply defending their homes, their streets and their homeland,” he said.

Erdogan stressed that despite Israel committing “brutal murders” of innocent people, bombing markets, ambulances, humanitarian aid centers and areas defined as safe, the Joe Biden administration continues to provide them with support “at the cost of being complicit.”

“Israel has been treating Gaza like an open-air prison for years. They are stealing Palestinian homes, businesses and farmlands through terrorist thieves they call settlers,” he said.

“For years, Israel has carried out systematic state terrorism in the Palestinian territory,” Erdogan insisted, warning that Israel “threatens” other countries in the region with its “attempts to spread the conflict.”