The Times of Israel reports: “Gaza’s future must be Palestinian-led and avoid any new system of foreign hegemony, Turkey and six of its top Muslim allies said Monday, after talks in Istanbul.
Turkey’s relations with Israel collapsed during the Gaza war, and it has been a harsh critic of Jerusalem, but it also served as a key mediator of the tenuous three-week-old ceasefire. Now, it is pushing for Muslim nations to bring their influence to bear on the reconstruction and future governance of the embattled Strip.
‘Our principle is that Palestinians should govern the Palestinians and ensure their own security. The international community should support this in the best possible way — diplomatically, institutionally, and economically,’ Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said after the talks.
‘Nobody wants to see a new system of tutelage emerge,’ he told a news conference, using a term meaning foreign supremacy over a territory…”
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