Tel Aviv’s recent attacks and assertions demonstrate efforts to spread war in the region, said the Turkish leader in New York, where he is attending the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

The absence of effective steps by the international community to end the oppression in Gaza or prevent the massacre committed by Israel is affecting the situation in the Middle East, Erdogan said, according to Turkish media.

The president insisted that the global system began to lose its effectiveness and credibility in the face of moral collapse due to inaction in the face of the conflict.

The massacre that has been going on for 352 days in Gaza proves this once again, Erdogan said, who assured that his country did its best to stop the Israeli policies of occupation, invasion and slaughter, as was published by the Turkish state news agency Anatolia.

The Eurasian nation’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, on Thursday, accused Israel of trying to expand the conflict to Lebanon and stressed that the operations are increasingly provocative so that Hezbollah and Iran ‘have no choice but to respond.

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