The statement also refers to the \u201cTurkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital\u201d, built by Turkey in the Gaza Strip and bombed by Israel in March.<\/p>\n
Turkey, which has been one of the most vocal critics of the war in Gaza, last year joined South Africa\u2019s case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice.<\/p>\n
A fragile ceasefire has been in force in the devastated Palestinian territory since October 10 as part of US President Donald Trump\u2019s regional peace plan.<\/p>\n
The Islamist militant group Hamas welcomed Turkey\u2019s announcement, calling it a \u201ccommendable measure [confirming] the sincere positions of the Turkish people and their leaders, who are committed to the values of justice, humanity and fraternity that bind them to our oppressed Palestinian people\u201d.<\/p>\n
Stabilisation force<\/p>\n
Saar said in his post in English on the social media platform X that \u201cin Erdogan\u2019s Turkey, the judiciary has long since become a tool for silencing political rivals and detaining journalists, judges and mayors\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said the Istanbul prosecutor\u2019s office \u201crecently orchestrated the arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul merely for daring to run against Erdogan\u201d, referring to Ekrem Imamoglu, who was detained in March.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman wrote on X that the arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials \u201cclearly explain why Turkey should not be present in the Gaza Strip \u2013 directly or indirectly\u201d.<\/p>\n
Turkey wants to take part in the international stabilisation force intended to play a role in post-war Gaza, according to Trump\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n
But Ankara\u2019s efforts, which include increasing diplomatic contacts in the region and seeking to influence the pro-Israel stance of the United States, are viewed unfavourably in Israel, which considers Turkey too close to Hamas.<\/p>\n
Israeli leaders have repeatedly expressed their opposition to any Turkish participation in the international stabilisation force in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Israel has rejected as \u201cfalse\u201d and \u201cantisemitic\u201d accusations of genocide from a UN-mandated commission, several NGOs and some countries.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The statement also refers to the \u201cTurkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital\u201d, built by Turkey in the Gaza Strip and bombed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9092,95,696,14466,48469,1873,16945,860,266,42,5873,38609,18087,6722,48468,43,10711,1523,415,22049,1534,5843,3010,40,38,41,39,5858,87032,46730],"class_list":["post-124843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-against","tag-and","tag-announced","tag-arrest","tag-benjamin","tag-charges","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-israeli","tag-issued","tag-minister","tag-netanyahu","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-over","tag-prime","tag-rejects","tag-saturday","tag-senior","tag-top","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-turkey","tag-turkeys","tag-warrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}