Critics label pro-Erdoğan groups’ Gaza rally a PR stunt due to Turkey’s ongoing trade with Israel

Critics accuse Turkish dictator Erdoğan of hypocrisy after he organized a high-profile Gaza solidarity rally due to proof of ongoing oil shipments etc to Israel despite an embargo.

By Turkish Minute on 2nd Jan 2025 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FmB Telegram https://t.me/thefreeonline

Nine pro-Palestinian activists, recently held in pretrial detention for several days for protesting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over Turkey’s alleged ongoing trade with Israel, face up to three years in prison, the İhlas News Agency (İHA) reported on Friday.

TURKEY-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-DEMO — Demonstrators hold Palestinian and Turkish flags as they attend an establishment rally in solidarity with massacred Palestinians, while organisers profit from secret Israeli support , on January 1, 2025, amid the continuing Israeli Genocide of the Gaza population.

On January 1, more than 400 civil society organizations joined the march to İstanbul’s Galata Bridge, organized by the pro-Erdoğan Turkish Youth Foundation (TÜGVA) and the National Will Platform, under the banner “Yesterday Hagia Sophia, Today Umayyad, Tomorrow Al-Aqsa.”

Former intel chief detained on Erdoğan insult charges due to criticism of Gaza policy \ByTurkish Minute January 2, 2025 Turkish police on Thursday detained Sabri Uzun, the former head of the National Security Directorate’s intelligence department in Ankara, on accusations of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his criticism of Erdoğan’s Gaza policy, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

Uzun took to X to express his disbelief in Turkey’s solidarity with Gaza amid widespread allegations about the Turkish government’s ongoing trade with Israel despite an embargo announced in May.

“The father has sent fuel and steel to Israel, he has been applauded. The son has protested Israel; he has been applauded. Such a nation … deserves a sultan’s rule. This is what an uneducated society looks like,” Uzun tweeted, in reference to Erdoğan and his son Bilal.

Thousands of people in Turkey are investigated, prosecuted and convicted on charges of insulting the president on the basis of the controversial Article 299 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK). The crime carries up to four years in prison, a sentence that can be increased if the act was committed using the mass media.

Erdoğan’s 2024: Turks on bread line, hollow Gaza rhetoric and a conqueror’s pose in Syria

Critics accuse Erdoğan, one of the fiercest critics of Israeli actions in Gaza, of hypocrisy for allegedly facilitating crude oil shipments to Israel despite Turkey’s public stance against Israeli military action in Gaza.

Reports have revealed continued shipments of crude oil from Turkey’s Ceyhan port to Israel, despite the trade embargo.

Investigations by advocacy groups such as Stop Fueling Genocide have tracked oil tankers reportedly rerouting shipments to Israel through intermediary destinations.

Erdoğan’s vocal hypocritical criticism of Tel Aviv over its military campaign in Gaza.

Erdoğan condemned Israel’s military actions in Gaza as genocide and accused Western states of being complicit through their silence.

However, this rhetoric stood in stark contrast to Turkey’s actions.

Although Erdoğan imposed a trade ban with Israel in May, investigations revealed that this was effectively circumvented by increased exports to Palestine, while a significant proportion of Israeli crude oil imports continued to pass through Turkey via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.

Protesters who accused Erdoğan of hypocrisy were met with excessive force and some were arrested.

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There are no ‘Humanitarian Zones’ or ‘Evacuation Orders’ in Gaza – Let’s not repeat Israeli Lies!

It is time the world starts using the correct terminology for Israel’s actions in Gaza: genocide.

8th Dec 2024 by Al Jazeera via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-F89 Telegram t.me/thefreeonline

PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT — Displaced Palestinians leave an area in eastern Khan Younis in the southern <span>Gaza Strip</span> after the Israeli army forced them out. [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

As you read this, many families in Gaza are weighing whether they should flee their current shelter and risk having to endure the harsh winter out on the streets or risk being bombed and killed where they are. There is no guarantee that they will be safe from Israel’s bombs and bullets if they choose either option.

Yes, you read that right – the people in these “humanitarian zones” received “evacuation orders” and had to flee to save their lives, often with just the clothes on their backs 10 or more times in jut over a year.

The research, based on the testimonies of displaced Palestinians on the ground, revealed that Israel’s “evacuation orders” often give people just an hour, and sometimes even less, to pack up what remains of their lives and run for their lives. And when they agree to “evacuate”, they are often still chased by a hail of bullets as they try to find new shelter in another “humanitarian zone”.

The devastating details in the report, titled Erasure by Design, make it clear that there are no real humanitarian zones in Gaza and that the “evacuation orders” Israel issues are not aimed at getting Palestinians out of harm’s way. The use of these terms by Israel, its allies and international media serve only to whitewash what is happening before our eyes in Gaza: land grabs under the threat of extermination.

The Israeli military is not acting humanely or doing Palestinians a favour when it threatens them with death by bombing if they do not leave their homes and makeshift shelters

It is not driving exhausted, starving people constantly from one place to another under threat of death and maiming, using difficult to decipher guidance, out of humanitarian concern.

is doing so to ensure nowhere in Gaza is safe for Palestinians.

It is trying to kill two birds with one stone: creating the illusion of adherence to humanitarian law while laying the groundwork for illegally expanding Israeli territory

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.

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Israeli forces strike, storm Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital with ‘no warning’ + PICTURE GALLERY- ‘Israel kills dozens..’

The World Health Organization says Israel issued no warning for the strike on the hospital that killed four staff and forced patients out

by Aljazeera on 6th Dec 2024 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-F6y Telegram t.me/thefreeonline

Israeli forces attack and raid hospital in Gaza siege zone

At least four staff have been killed when several air strikes hit Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital and Israeli forces stormed the facility, according to the hospital’s director and the enclave’s Civil Defence agency.

Hossam Abu Safieh, the director of one of the last functioning health centres in northern Gaza said a series of air strikes hit the northern and western sides of the hospital on Friday, “accompanied by intense and direct fire”.

No surgeons were left in the hospital, he added.

Women and children again burned alive in Israeli attack on camp-murders 48 Palestinians in a day- hits Gaza hospital water tanks,

By Stephen Quillen and Virginia Pietromarchi at AlJazeera. On 5 Dec 2024 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-F4y Telegram t.me/thefreeonline

Israeli forces have again bombed the so-called “safe zone” in Gaza’s al-Mawasi, killing at least 21 people and wounding dozens more, according to Atif al-Hout, the director of the Nasser Hospital in nearby Khan Younis. .

Our correspondents say women and children were “incinerated” in the attack.

Children ‘incinerated’ in Israeli attack in ‘safe zone’ in Gaza

Gaza’s Ministry of Health says Israeli attacks on the enclave killed 48 Palestinians and wounded 201 in the latest 24-hour reporting period..

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - DEC 5: The bodies of Palestinians are taken from the morgue of Nasser Hospital for funeral prayers and burial after the Israeli attacks in Al-Mawasi Area, in Khan Yunis, Gaza on December 5, 2024. Relatives of those who lost their lives were mourned. It was reported that there were casualties and wounded as a result of the Israeli army's attacks on the al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis city in the Gaza Strip.

Israel ‘suffocating’ humanitarian aid intended for Gaza. “There’s a systematic attempt [by Israel] to keep people in the cold and keep them starving in the cold,” he told Al Jazeera.

https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1864025814053847289

“Whole families were hit, including women and children. Al-Mawasi continues to be attacked by Israeli strikes that destroy the tents with people inside them, leaving many dead or injured,”

Israel has begun attacking commercial food stores to wipe out the last sources of food This is beyond evil

Britain pledges aid for Gaza while ‘arming the perpetrators’“The UK is trying to help feed the victims, while at the same time arming the perpetrators,” Doyle told Al Jazeera.

https://twitter.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1864343400805265553

Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing genocide in GazaA damning new report by the rights group finds Israel’s war on Gaza meets legal threshold for genocide against the Palestinian people.

Monumental ongoing massacre in Gaza in Israel Revenge for Lebanon Defeat as US grants $640 million more Genocide Aid

-Israel fighter jets carrying out intense bombing of Gaza

Hani Mahmoud

Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip

This started in the early hours of this morning across the Gaza Strip.

We can confidently say that the entire Gaza Strip has been bombed equally since the early hours of this morning

We can still clearly hear the sound of the fighter jets flying at a very, very low level across the central area of Gaza and Deir el-Balah city.

Reports were received from the northern part of the Strip, particularly from Jabalia and the city of Beit Lahiya. These fighter jets carried out deadly attacks that destroyed the remaining residential buildings in Jabalia refugee camp, Jabalia town as well as the northern part of Beit Lahiya Project area and Beit Lahiya city.

This is just pushing people into further internal displacement and causing massive civilian casualties.

In the Nuseirat refugee camp, particularly in the northern area of the camp, very close to the Netzarim junction, the Israeli military on the ground is conducting a policy to expand the junction. In doing so, it carries out these attacks to destroy remaining residential buildings.

These buildings are residential homes and residential towers that the Israeli military claims are being used as observation points by Palestinian fighters.

But from what we’ve heard from witnesses, there were massive numbers of civilians inside these residential buildings.

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US arms sales to Israel

The ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel has been in place for almost a day now and Lebanese troops have started moving to the south of the country under the terms of the deal.

People are travelling back to towns, villages and homes they were forcibly displaced from but Israel’s military has imposed movement restrictions on Lebanese civilians in parts of south Lebanon.

US media are also reporting that President Joe Biden’s administration has approved new weapons sales to Israel. $640 million

France orders freedom for Abdallah after 40 years in jail… amid Gaza Genocide and Samidoun Support Campaign.. State appeals (Copy)

By MEE staff / Nicolas Cinquini / thefreeonline on 18th November 2024 Telegram t.me/thefreeonline.

AFP, citing a legal sources, has reported that a French court ordered the release of Lebanese and pro-Palestine activist George Abdallah, who had been jailed for 40 years since 1984.

The court ruled that Abdallah will be released on December 6 on the condition of leaving France, however, French “anti-terror” prosecutors told AFP, that they would appeal..

Abdallah was accused of assassinating US and Israeli diplomats.

Despite completing the minimum portion of his life sentence in 1999, French authorities denied his eight parole requests.

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A victory for justice? … 40 Years late

By. Nicolás Cinquini. (Collection D.Larregola)

Photos: Actions and events around the world demand freedom for Georges …

Now 73 years old, Abdallah was arrested in France in 1984 and after pretrial detention, convicted in 1987 for complicity in two murders. Colonel Charles Ray, US military attaché and CIA intelligence officer, was shot in Paris on January 18, 1982.

Second secretary of Israel’s embassy and Mossad intelligence officer, Yacov Barsimantov was shot in Paris on March 31, 1982.

The intelligence functions of the two victims are confirmed nowadays by Yves Bonnet, head between 1982 and 1985 of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire [Territorial Surveillance Directorate, French counter intelligence agency, DST].

The Fractions armées révolutionnaires libanaises [Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Factions, FARL] took credit for the two murders.

As a matter of course : Abdallah would have not been sentenced to life imprisonment without formal intervention of the US government.

The investigators found no evidence of its membership in the FARL or involvement in the murders.

That was rather a matter of intelligence. And according to several former French professionals, the intelligence was wrong.

The US joined a civil action to criminal proceedings and through diplomatic and intelligence channels, it demanded that the defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment. Hillary Clinton (AP)

Under French law, Abdallah could have been granted parole since 1999.

But obviously, like it also appeared in WikiLeaks here and here, the US authorities, including Hillary Clinton, were continuing to lobby their French lackeys against his parole.

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French court finally orders release of Lebanese political activist jailed for 40 years- but State will appeal..

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, France’s longest-held political prisoner, has been eligible for release for 25 years.

Lebanese political prisoner Georges Ibrahim Abdallah sits in court during his trial in Lyon, France, on 3 July 1986 (AFP)

By MEE staff 227 Shares

Published date: 15 November 2024 16:11 GMT | Last update:19 hours 20 mins ago

A French court on Friday ordered the release of Lebanese pro-Palestine activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Europe’s longest-held political prisoner, after 40 years in prison.

Israelis release hostages and Hunt them down for Sport.. ha ha ha.. deliver aid to Shelter then BOMB it..

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🚨96 hours later, not one single word in mainstream media about Israel sadistically executing 3 Gazan hostages:

Ordering them to make a run for their lives, then hunting them down one by one as they fled in terror.

Were they Israeli hostages, the earth would be shaking right now; you’d never see the end of Western gov’s condemnations & media segments decrying this as “barbaric”.

LIVE: Israeli forces attack north Gaza shelters just after UN delivers aid

The United Nations says Israel let only one aid mission into besieged north Gaza this month and attacked the shelters the supplies were distributed at shortly afterwards.

Israel let UN mission deliver aid to north Gaza shelters, then attacked the area – International tehrantimes

November 13, 2024 – 19:23

The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) said Israel has denied or impeded all of its attempts to provide food and healthcare to tens of thousands of people trapped in besieged northern Gaza so far this month.

The agency said Israeli authorities allowed only one mission by the World Food Program (WFP) to enter on November 11, according to Al Jazeera.

IOF Bombs Another School Sheltering …

4 days ago — Footage captures the extensive damage caused by Israeli occupation forces, who completely destroyed Mahdia Al-Shawa School in Beit Hanoun, …

The WFP convoy included two trucks carrying life-saving ready-to-eat rations and wheat flour, and one truck carrying bottled water. The aid was delivered to the Mahdia al-Shawwa School, which was sheltering displaced Palestinians, and a nearby public shelter, OCHA said.

But shortly afterwards, Israeli forces surrounded the area, shelled it and forced people to flee.

Earlier, Palestinian media reported that Israeli forces had set fire to Mahdia al-Shawwa School and destroyed the building.

Israeli army torches school shelter in north Gaza just after aid trucks finally enter

The Israeli military on Tuesday burned down a school that was serving as a shelter for displaced Palestinians in north Gaza after aid trucks had reached the area.