Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked today how the UN can protect the rights of others amid Israel's attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, when it is unable to protect rights of its own staff. This was reported by the Anatolian Agency (AA) to BTA according to the information exchange agreement between the two agencies.
„We have watched with embarrassment how the UN Security Council and international organizations are completely powerless in the face of Israel's insolence,” Erdogan said at the conference “Global Diplomacy and the Future of Palestine” in Ankara.
„How much longer will the UN Security Council stand by and watch our region turn into a sea of blood, with civilians burned alive in Gaza?“ he said.
„We have witnessed how human rights organizations and the world media play the role of the three monkeys when it comes to the rights of innocent children being slaughtered in Gaza,” he added.
Erdogan also said that for decades Palestinians have endured this oppression while Israel has imposed its policies of occupation, destruction and execution without interruption for 76 years.
„We can predict where this expansionism will lead if Israel, which is becoming increasingly arrogant and aggressive, is not stopped”, the Turkish president added.
Since September 23, Israel has carried out massive airstrikes in Lebanon against what it says are Hezbollah targets, killing at least 1,542 people, injuring more than 4,555 others and displacing more than 1.340 million people. It also launched a ground invasion earlier this month.
The campaign is an escalation of the year-long cross-border war between Israel and “Hezbollah” since the start of the offensive in the Gaza Strip, in which Israel has killed more than 42,000 people, most of them women and children, after the attack by “Hamas” last year.