In a post on his social media, Presidency's Head of Communications Fahrettin Altun responded to the post Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared on his social media account regarding the meeting of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan and the President Mahmoud Abbas of the State of Palestine.
Head of Communications Altun noted the following in the post he shared in English:
"The current Israeli government is trying hard to distract from its genocide against Palestinians. The Israeli Prime Minister dares justify his government’s indiscriminate killings, war crimes and defiance of international law by claiming just cause. Nobody including many Israelis buys this story anymore.
Netanyahu has been using the October 7 attack as an excuse for murdering Palestinian civilians and pushing them out of their lands. Today, he is panicking that the case against him at the ICC is going to catch up with him. Some Western governments’ diplomatic protection will not guarantee him freedom from prosecution under international law.
The Israeli government is already guilty in the eyes of most of the world. ICC investigation will only confirm what is already known. Trying to delegitimize this case can only work for a handful of Western governments who are complicit in this genocide. The history has already judged this case. It is just a matter of time for accountability.
As Netanyahu accuses the ICC of obsessing with casting his government’s elected leaders as war criminals, we must remind him that his government and leadership are not the first elected government in history to pursue genocide. Being elected to power through elections gives you no legitimacy to conduct ethnic cleansing against another people.
The Israeli Prime Minister is the last person to speak about slaughtering civilians and jailing journalists. Under his watch, the Israeli military has killed more than 42 thousand civilians, displaced millions, and killed at least 116 journalists in just less than a year. He has overseen a military campaign that has dropped more than 70,000 tons of bombs over Gaza in just six months, the equivalent of several nuclear bombs!
Türkiye under the leadership of President Erdogan has always insisted on speaking the plain and simple truth about Palestine. We are not interested in rhetorical games but only in justice being served. We are involved in the ICC case for this very reason. We will keep fighting for peace in this region and we will never rest until Palestine is free!"