Greta Thunberg at COP: Turkish energy shipments 'directly fuelling the genocide of Palestine'

Activist Greta Thunberg has called for an end to Turkish fuel shipments to Israel at the Cop 31 climate conference in Turkey’s Antalya, as a new report has revealed that 77 crude oil shipments left Turkish ports for Israel in violation of Ankara’s energy embargo.

Thunberg, who addressed a packed press conference on Thursday alongside activists from Nepal, Australia, Palestine and Canada, called on Ankara to “stop the transfer of oil and energy from its territory to Israel”, which she said is “directly fuelling the genocide of Palestine”.

Her comments came shortly after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared in his opening address to the conference that Gaza has suffered "not only a genocide but also an ecocide", and called for the immediate entry of aid into the war-torn enclave.