Erdogan calls for a meeting of Islamic leaders to confront Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the leaders of Islamic countries to hold an urgent meeting to confront the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. Erdogan said in a speech he delivered last night after a government meeting at the presidential complex in the capital Ankara: "It has become urgent to hold a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the level of leaders and to show a firm stance to the Islamic world," regarding the developments in the Palestinian arena and Israel's continued perpetration of more massacres against the Palestinian people. He added: "The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has a duty to defend the cause of al-Quds and it is unreasonable for it to remain indifferent to these attacks, stressing the Turkish people's support for their Palestinian brothers. The Turkish President pledged that his country will take all legal steps to hold Israel accountable for killing his fellow citizen, who also holds American citizenship, activist / Aisha Nour Azgi Aygi / in the occupied West Bank. Erdogan said that his country will continue to pursue Israel at the highest levels and through the International Court of Justice as well. He added: "We stand by our Palestinian brothers as a people who wrote an epic of resistance during the war of independence against the imperialist powers at that time." Last Friday, the Israeli occupation army killed activist Aisha Nour with live bullets while she was participating in an event denouncing settlements in the town of Beita in the Nablus Governorate in the occupied West Bank. On the other hand, and in parallel with its war on Gaza, the occupation army expanded its operations and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, resulting in the martyrdom of 692 Palestinians and the injury of about 5,700, in addition to the detainees, according to official Palestinian institutions. With absolute American support, Israel is waging a devastating war on Gaza that has resulted in more than 135,000 Palestinian martyrs and woun ded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amidst massive destruction and famine that has claimed the lives of hundreds in one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Source: National Iraqi News Agency