Turkey has strongly condemned yesterday’s new Israeli army offensive on Lebanon, which has already killed more than half a thousand people – 50 of them children – and injured nearly 2,000, warning the international community of the risk of chaos spreading across the Middle East region as Israel insists on ‘accelerating the offensive’ on the grounds that ‘no respite must be given to Hezbollah’. ‘Lebanon is on the brink of collapse,’ UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned today.
‘Israel’s attacks on Lebanon mark a new phase in its efforts to drag the entire region into chaos,’ Turkey’s foreign ministry warned in a statement issued late yesterday.
‘The countries that unconditionally support Israel are helping Netanyahu shed blood for his political interests. It is imperative that all institutions responsible for maintaining international peace and security, especially the United Nations Security Council, as well as the international community, take the necessary measures without delay,’ the text added.
Erdoğan calls for an international coalition to stop Netanyahu
In a fiery speech to the UN General Assembly today, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan called for an international alliance to stop Netanyahu, just as 70 years ago humanity united to stop Hitler: ‘What are you waiting for to prevent genocide in Gaza and say “enough” to this oppression and barbarity?’ he said amid applause.
‘Just as Hitler was stopped by an alliance of Humanity 70 years ago, Netanyahu and his network of murderers must also be stopped,’ said Erdoğan, who stressed that Gaza has become the world’s largest graveyard of women and children because of him.
Turkey has been urging the international community for months to put pressure on Israel before the war with Hamas spreads to Lebanon and Iran, and from there to the whole region. With a failing economy and a very delicate political and social situation, Lebanon is now facing its biggest challenge in decades as a wave of air strikes launched yesterday by the Israeli army has already killed at least 558 people and injured 1,835 – according to provisional official figures from the Lebanese health ministry – and forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee the south of the country.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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