Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says Israel’s attacks on Lebanon targetting Hezbollah will continue as long as the West remains silent, according to broadcaster CNN Turk and other media.
Turkey has denounced Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’s October 7 massacre, and condemned the Israeli attacks on Hezbollah too.
Speaking to Turkish journalists in New York before leaving the UN General Assembly, Erdogan says Israel’s airstrikes on Lebanon are proof that it was trying to spread the war in Gaza to the wider region, adding the UN is powerless to stop it.
“As the world remains silent and Western countries give the Israeli leadership weapons support, these massacres will sadly continue. We stressed this in our meetings,” he is reported as saying.
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