Turkey calls on Israeli Occupation to 'stop attacking Palestinians'

MENA

Published: 2021-05-10 12:32

Last Updated: 2024-03-28 12:09


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Monday, Turkey called on the Israeli Occupation to "stop attacking the Palestinians," hours after Israeli Occupation police assaulted worshippers in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem resulting in over 200 injuries. 

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that hundreds of people were injured after hundreds of Palestinians retreating in the mosque in the last ten days of the month of Ramadan to prevent settlers from entering it.

These clashes are the worst in Occupied Jerusalem since 2017.

Ibrahim Kalin, a spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Twitter that "Israel must stop attacking the Palestinians in Jerusalem and prevent the settlers/occupiers from entering the holy mosque. Israel bears sole responsibility for the violence."

"The world must move to stop the never-ending Israeli aggression against unarmed civilians in their lands," he said.

On Saturday, Erdogan himself described the Israeli Occupation as a "brutal terrorist" state that attacks the Palestinians "in a brutal and immoral manner."

Relations between Turkey and the Israeli Occupation have been strained since an organization close to the Turkish government launched a ship in 2010 in an attempt to break the Israeli Occupation blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip.

About 300 people demonstrated Saturday morning in front of the Israeli Occupation consulate in Istanbul to protest the violence in Occupied Jerusalem.

The Turkish police did not intervene to prevent the protest, despite the enforcement of a ban on public gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic.