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President Recep Tayyip on said Wednesday accused Western nations of backing Israeli “plans to spread the war” into Lebanon, after fresh Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon.
“Türkiye stands with Lebanon and calls on regional actors to support Beirut,” Erdoğan told a parliamentary meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in the capital Ankara.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to expand the war could lead to a “major catastrophe”, Erdoğan said, adding the Western support for Israel was “pitiful”.
“It is extremely dire, pathetic that states, which talk about freedom, human rights, and justice, are held captive by a madman like Netanyahu,” he said.
The fallout from Israel’s war on Gaza is regularly felt on the Israel-Lebanon frontier, where deadly cross-border exchanges have escalated between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters.
Erdoğan went on to argue that pictures of starving children in the Gaza Strip are “a blight of shame for the modern world” and hit out at fellow Muslim countries, saying: “This will also be remembered as a symbol of the Muslim world’s impotence.”
Condemning Israel’s continued attacks during the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, Erdoğan said he remembers 38,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli “barbarity” with “God’s compassion.”
