Turkey foreign minister: ‘Those supporting Israel’s actions are accomplices to its crimes’

Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, said that Israel is exercising a form of collective punishment in Gaza and is “targeting civilians in hospitals and places of worship,” in a live event from Qatar’s Doha. 

He said that “ground invasion in Gaza will turn the fighting into a massacre,” and that “those supporting Israel’s actions under the pretence of solidarity are accomplices to its crimes". 

“What Israeli occupation forces are exercising is a collective punishment against all the residents of Gaza. Gazans cannot be uprooted from their homeland,” he said.