President Erdogan welcomes ICJ ordering Israel to stop its genocide in Gaza

Erdogan hopes the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Israel to stop its genocide in Gaza will be implemented immediately and fully by Tel Aviv

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday welcomed the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Israel to immediately take measures to prevent genocide in besieged Gaza.

“We will continue to follow the process to ensure that war crimes committed against innocent Palestinian civilians do not go unpunished,” Erdogan said in a statement.

Erdogan said that he hopes this cautionary ruling which is binding by the Geneva Convention, will result in an end to Israel’s attacks on women and children of Gaza.

“As Türkiye, we will continue to work with all our strength and stand by our Palestinian brothers and sisters to establish a ceasefire and ensure the path to permanent peace,” Erdogan said.

Erdogan also spoke on the phone with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday, discussing regional and global matters as well as Türkiye’s ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that “the measures announced by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) constitute a very important opportunity to stop the bloodshed in Palestine.”

The ministry emphasized that it expects the rulings regarding “Israel’s attacks against the Palestinian people living in Gaza to be immediately and fully implemented by Israel.”

“Permanent peace and security in the Middle East can only be achieved by a fair solution to the Israel-Palestine issue on the basis of international law and established parameters. Türkiye has the will to make every contribution and effort it can on this path,” the statement read.

Recognizing the Palestinians’ right to be protected from acts of genocide, on Friday the United Nations court ordered Israel to take effective measures to enable humanitarian aid and the provision of urgently needed basic services in the Gaza Strip.

The top court obliged Israel to report back in a month, asserting that the court has jurisdiction to rule in the case and it would not throw away the case, as Tel Aviv requested earlier.

The court based in The Hague – while stopping short of ordering an immediate halt to the almost four-month-old war – said Israel must do everything to “prevent the commission of all acts within the scope” of the Genocide Convention.

South Africa had brought the case against Israel, accusing it of breaching the 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention, set up in the ashes of World War II and the Holocaust.

Source: Newsroom