2025-11-07T20:38:03+00:00

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Shafaq News – Ankara

Türkiye issued arrest warrants for 37 senior Israeli
officials — including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — accusing them of
committing genocide during the war in Gaza.

The warrants, announced Friday by the Istanbul Chief Public
Prosecutor’s Office, also targeted Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief of
Staff Eyal Zamir, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

Prosecutors claim the move stems from what they describe as
systematic Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza, where more than 68,500
Palestinians — most of them women and children — have been killed since October
7, 2023.

Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party,
denounced the decision, saying the orders issued by President Tayyip Erdogan’s
government “show why Türkiye must not be present in Gaza, directly or
indirectly.”

Earlier, Netanyahu reaffirmed his opposition to any Turkish
participation in the proposed international force planned for Gaza, telling
senior reserve officers, “There will be no Turkish forces in Gaza.”

The move from Ankara comes amid growing international legal
scrutiny of Israel’s conduct in the war. In May 2024, the International
Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Defense
Minister Yoav Galant, alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC
prosecutor accused Israeli leaders of using starvation as a weapon of war and
committing other inhumane acts between October 2023 and May 2024.