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A picture of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Tehran is carried amid of demonstrators waving Palestinian and Turkish flags during a rally in support of Palestinians in Gaza, in Istanbul, Turkey, August 3, 2024
TURKEY filed a request with a UN court today to join South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said.
Turkey’s ambassador to the Netherlands submitted a declaration of intervention to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.
With the development, Turkey, one of the fiercest critics of Israel’s actions in Gaza, becomes the latest nation seeking to participate in the case.
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
Over 30 nations to gather in Colombia to bring a halt to the genocide in Gaza
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions