Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday expressed his country's support for the Egyptian-Qatari efforts to renew the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and stressed the need to guarantee the return of Palestinian refugees, saying they would not "accept a new displacement."
During the meeting of the Group of Parliaments in Support of Palestine in İstanbul on Friday, Erdoğan denounced the crimes committed against the Palestinian people in Gaza as a result of the Israeli war, saying that "Israeli barbarism and brutality in Gaza are taking place in full view of the United Nations and the UN Security Council."
The Turkish President said, "I hope that, sooner or later, Israel will be held accountable before the international courts for the crimes it has committed," and he urged the Israeli society to stand up against their corrupt government and speak out against the genocide taking place in the Gaza Strip.
During his Gulf tour last week, which included Qatar and Kuwait, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt emphasised to Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar the need for a ceasefire in Gaza and to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation there.
The two leaders stressed their categorical rejection of the displacement of Palestinians from their land and the need to support the plan to rebuild Gaza without displacing Palestinians from it, while working to create a political horizon that ultimately leads to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state based on the June 4, 1967, borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.