The rules-based international order is collapsing in Gaza

Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, and Israel’s response to it, are a major test of our commitment to international law

Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, on Tuesday. Picture: AP /Fatima Shbair

In 2007, I found myself in a car with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and then-Israeli president Shimon Peres en route to Turkey’s Grand National Assembly. 

During their historic visit to Ankara, which I had the privilege of hosting, both leaders addressed the Turkish parliament, advocating peace and a two-state solution. This was just two years after Turkey launched its Industry for Peace project, which sought to rehabilitate the Erez industrial park in Gaza.