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Turkey says international community ‘must do its part to stop genocide’
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said the international community “must do its part to stop genocide” in Gaza, after Ankara submitted a formal request to partake in South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
“Encouraged by the impunity for its crimes, Israel is killing more and more innocent Palestinians every day,” Fidan said on X.
“The international community must do its part to stop genocide; It must put the necessary pressure on Israel and its supporters.” He added that Turkey would “make every effort in this regard.”
Meanwhile the US does everything to support genocide
Biden administration sued over sanctions for Israeli settlers
Pro-Israel advocacy groups and dual US-Israeli citizens have filed a lawsuit challenging President Joe Biden’s order subjecting individuals involved in settler violence in the West Bank to financial and immigration sanctions.
The complaint filed in Amarillo, Texas, says the executive order that Biden issued in February violates the plaintiffs’ free-speech rights under the US Constitution and illegally interferes with the exercise of their religious beliefs.
The organisations behind the lawsuit include Texans for Israel, a Christian nonprofit, Israeli nonprofit Regavim, the groups’ leaders, and two dual US-Israeli citizens who live in the West Bank and say they oppose the “two-state solution” favoured by the Biden administration. The wife of one of the US-Israeli citizens was sanctioned by the US.
Biden’s executive order allows federal agencies to impose financial sanctions and visa restrictions against individuals who attack or intimidate Palestinians or seize their property.
Haniyeh’s killing risks ‘wider conflict’, OIC chair warns
The “heinous” killing of Ismail Haniyeh risks tipping the Middle East into “wider conflict”, the chair of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said.
Iranian and Palestinian officials called for Wednesday’s gathering of the 57-member OIC in Jeddah, saying the body needed to respond to the killing of the Hamas leader.
“This heinous act serves only to escalate the existing tensions potentially leading to a wider conflict that could involve the entire region,” said the Gambian Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara, whose country currently chairs the OIC.
Haniyeh’s killing “will not quell the Palestinian cause but rather it amplifies it, underscoring the urgency for justice and human rights for the Palestinian people”.
“The sovereignty and territorial integrity of nation states are fundamental principles underpinning the international order. Respecting these principles has profound implications and their violation equally carries significant consequences.”
OIC says Israel ‘fully responsible’ for Haniyeh’s killing
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has blamed Israel for the attack that killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh last week in Iran, which has vowed to retaliate.
A statement issued after an extraordinary meeting of the 57-member bloc in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah said it “holds Israel, the illegal occupying power, fully responsible for this heinous attack”, which it described as “a serious infringement” of Iran’s sovereignty.
Saudi Arabia calls Haniyeh’s killing ‘flagrant violation’ of Iran’s sovereignty
Saudi Arabia has condemned last week’s killing in Tehran of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh as a “flagrant violation” of Iran’s sovereignty, in its first comment on the attack.
Haniyeh’s killing “is a flagrant violation of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran… and constitutes a threat to regional peace and security,” Saudi Vice Foreign Minister Waleed bin Abdulkarim El-Khereiji told a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, a statement said.
