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Turkish, Algerian Leaders Discuss Gaza War, Bilateral Economic Partnership

A handout photo provided by the Algerian Presidency Press Service shows Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune (R) meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) during a meeting in Algiers, Algeria, 21 November 2023. (EPA/Algerian Presidency Press Service handout)
A handout photo provided by the Algerian Presidency Press Service shows Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune (R) meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) during a meeting in Algiers, Algeria, 21 November 2023. (EPA/Algerian Presidency Press Service handout)
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Turkish, Algerian Leaders Discuss Gaza War, Bilateral Economic Partnership

A handout photo provided by the Algerian Presidency Press Service shows Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune (R) meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) during a meeting in Algiers, Algeria, 21 November 2023. (EPA/Algerian Presidency Press Service handout)
A handout photo provided by the Algerian Presidency Press Service shows Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune (R) meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) during a meeting in Algiers, Algeria, 21 November 2023. (EPA/Algerian Presidency Press Service handout)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Algiers on Tuesday on an official visit.
He was received by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. They later held talks at the Algiers International Airport's Hall of Honor.
The discussions focused on the Israeli war on Gaza and the Arab-Islamic Summit held in Riyadh on Nov. 11.
They also tackled the implementation of agreements reached during a visit Tebboune made to Ankara in July.
Erdogan and Tebboune will chair the second session of the Algerian-Turkish High-Level Cooperation Council.
The council had first met in Ankara in 2021 and focused on promoting Turkish investments in Algeria.
In September, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met his Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf in Ankara.
Attaf said bilateral relations between their countries have significantly improved over the past three years and are continuing to expand to include all areas of partnership and cooperation.
He also noted that the two countries plan to increase their trade exchange to $10 billion.
“Algeria has become Türkiye's second trading partner with bilateral trade exceeding $5 billion, as well as the first destination for Turkish direct investments currently worth more than $6 billion,” the Algerian minister said, adding that this places Türkiye as the first foreign investor in Algeria outside the hydrocarbons sector.
After assuming the presidency, Tebboune made his first visit to Türkiye in May 2022, 17 years after the last visit made by late President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Tebboune made a second visit in July.
About 1,560 Turkish companies are active in the Algerian market, a jump from 900 companies in early 2022.

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Human Rights Watch Says Israel's Deprivation of Water in Gaza is Act of Genocide

Displaced Palestinians line up to fill their containers with water in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 14, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas militant group. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)
Displaced Palestinians line up to fill their containers with water in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 14, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas militant group. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)
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Human Rights Watch Says Israel's Deprivation of Water in Gaza is Act of Genocide

Displaced Palestinians line up to fill their containers with water in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 14, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas militant group. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)
Displaced Palestinians line up to fill their containers with water in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 14, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas militant group. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination.
"This policy, inflicted as part of a mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, means Israeli authorities have committed the crime against humanity of extermination, which is ongoing. This policy also amounts to an 'act of genocide' under the Genocide Convention of 1948," Human Rights Watch said in its report.
Israel has repeatedly rejected any accusation of genocide, saying it has respected international law and has a right to defend itself after the cross-border Hamas-led attack from Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023 that precipitated the war, reported Reuters.
In a statement on X, Israel's foreign ministry wrote: "The truth is the complete opposite of HRW's lies."
"Since the beginning of the war, Israel has facilitated the continuous flow of water and humanitarian aid into Gaza, despite operating under constant attacks of Hamas terror organization," the statement said.
Although the report described the deprivation of water as an act of genocide, it noted that proving the crime of genocide against Israeli officials would also require establishing their intent. It cited statements by some senior Israeli officials which it said suggested they "wish to destroy Palestinians" which means the deprivation of water "may amount to the crime of genocide".
"What we have found is that the Israeli government is intentionally killing Palestinians in Gaza by denying them the water that they need to survive," Lama Fakih, Human Rights Watch Middle East director told a press conference.
In its response, Israel said it had ensured water infrastructure remained operational. It said international partners had sent water tankers through Israeli crossings, including last week, and ⁠Israel had facilitated the entry of more than 1.2 million tons of humanitarian supplies into Gaza.
Human Rights Watch is the second major rights group in a month to use the word genocide to describe the actions of Israel in Gaza, after Amnesty International issued a report that concluded Israel was committing genocide.
Both reports came just weeks after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense chief for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. They deny the allegations.
The 184-page Human Rights Watch report said the Israeli government stopped water being piped into Gaza and cut off electricity and restricted fuel which meant Gaza's own water and sanitation facilities could not be used.
As a result, Palestinians in Gaza had access to only a few liters of water a day in many areas, far below the 15-liter-threshold for survival, the group said. Israel launched its air and ground war in Gaza after Hamas-led fighters attacked Israeli communities across the border 14 months ago, killing 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel's campaign has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, displaced most of the 2.3 million population and reduced much of the coastal enclave to ruins.