Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed that Israel would pay a price for the “genocide” in Gaza as he marked the first anniversary of the conflict, which broke out in response to the October 7 attack by Hamas.

“It should not be forgotten that Israel will sooner or later pay the price for this genocide that it has been carrying out for a year and is still continuing,” he said on X, formerly Twitter.

“Just as Hitler was stopped by an alliance of humanity, Netanyahu and his murder network will be stopped in the same way,” Erdogan said. “A world in which no account is held for the Gaza genocide will never find peace.”

The Turkish leader said what has been massacred before the eyes of the entire world for exactly one year “is actually all of humanity, and all of humanity’s hopes for the future”.

Erdogan also criticised the international system’s failure to stop the conflict in Gaza and Lebanon and said: “Israel’s long-standing policy of genocide, occupation and invasion must now come to an end.”