Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on countries supplying arms to Israel to stop doing so.
“Countries providing ammunition and weapon support to Israel’s massacres must now refrain from complicity in these crimes,” Erdogan said during a joint news conference in the capital Ankara with his Uzbek counterpart, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
Prodding the international community, whom he said hasn’t done enough to end the Gaza “massacre,” Erdogan also urged all “conscientious and responsible parties to take the wheel” to help reach an immediate ceasefire.
Meanwhile, Barry Trachtenberg, a historian and professor from Wake Forest University in the US, said while D-Day commemorations are under way in Europe, world leaders are closely watching what Israel is doing in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territory.
“What we’re seeing is this clear double-standard where when it’s in the interests of the United States and Western allies, they’ll invoke international law. When it’s not in their interests, they’ll clearly violate international law,” he said.
He told a news agency that the rules-based order established after World War II is “falling apart.”
“What Israel has been doing since October 7 is clearly in strong violation of international law – of the Conventions on Genocide, and Geneva Conventions on the pursuit of war. International bodies that are there to enforce these laws are really quite powerless, in large part because of Western opposition.”
Barry Trachtenberg
“For the 36,000 Palestinians who have already been murdered after October 7, it’s clear this ‘order’ has already failed,” he stated.
He added, Perhaps there’ll be possibilities to restore or strengthen it. But in the meantime, Palestinians are paying a very, very heavy price for this double standard.”
Spain To Join South Africa’s ICJ Case Against Israel
Also on Thursday, Spain announced that it will join the case filed by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in its war on the Gaza Strip.
Making the announcement, Spanish Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Albares said, “We made this decision in light of the continuation of the military operation in Gaza.”
“We also observe with enormous concern the regional extension of the conflict,” he said in a news conference.
He stressed that Spain took the decision to not only “let peace return to Gaza and the Middle East” but also due to its commitment to international law.
“Our sole goal is to put an end to the war and to advance on the road of applying the two-state solution”, Albares said
Spain will now join several countries including Colombia, Egypt and Turkey in formally requesting to join the case against Israel.
Spain is the first European nation to join the case, which has also been joined by Chile and Mexico.
In a statement, Hamas said that it considers Spain’s participation in South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice a move that will “strengthen international justice in its prosecution.”
“We call on countries around the world to join the lawsuit filed against the criminal Zionist entity, which continues to kill and commit massacres with the intention of genocide and ethnic cleansing, regardless of the precautionary decisions of the International Court of Justice,” Hamas’ statement noted.
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