Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced in a post on X that he will submit a draft resolution for approval at the next cabinet meeting calling for the State of Israel‘s official recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

According to the proposal, the recognition is based on a “moral and historical obligation” in relation to the genocide committed against the Armenian people during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.

The draft resolution also states that the denial, minimisation or distortion of the historical truth surrounding these events must be condemned.

The explanatory notes accompanying the proposal state that the Armenian Genocide began in April 1915 with the arrests, deportations and executions of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.

According to the text, this was followed by the systematic extermination of the Armenian population: men were conscripted into forced labour and murdered, while women, children and the elderly were deported on death marches into the Syrian desert.

The proposal refers to approximately 1.5 million deaths and the destruction of a thousand-year-old cultural and historical heritage in Anatolia.