A Turkish human rights delegation presents the International Criminal Court with new evidence of Israel’s crimes in Gaza

A Turkish human rights team intends to hand over additional evidence to the United Nations office and the International Criminal Court (in The Hague) regarding Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip.

The head of the Second Bar Association in Istanbul, Yassin Shamli, said in a press statement from Istanbul airport heading with the delegation to Switzerland: “5 additional volumes of evidence were collected in addition to 3 volumes that were previously submitted to the International Criminal Court.”

Shamli added: "We cannot remain indifferent to the massacre committed against women, children, civilians and innocent people in Gaza using weapons of mass destruction, and the bombing of markets, temples, schools, hospitals, ambulances and refugee camps." He added: "What we could have done as a legal institution was to mobilize international legal institutions, and this is what we did."

Last December, 3,061 Turkish lawyers filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court, which included evidence proving that Israel committed crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

On May 20, court prosecutor Karim Khan requested the issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant, for their responsibility for “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” in the Gaza Strip since October 7.