Turkiye’s Foreign Minister told his Lebanese counterpart on Wednesday that Ankara stood with Lebanon against attacks by Israel targeting the Hezbollah group in the country, a Turkish diplomatic source said, Reuters reports. A NATO member, Turkiye has denounced Israel’s devastating military offensive in Gaza prompted by Palestinian group Hamas’ cross-border attack on 7 October last year. Turkiye halted all trade with Israel and applied to join a genocide case against Israel at the World Court. Israel has said the genocide accusations are baseless. President Tayyip Erdogan has also condemned Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory, which Israel says are targeting Hezbollah fighters and infrastructure, and demanded international steps to halt Israel’s war in Gaza and cross-border fire with Hezbollah. In a meeting on the sidelines […]
