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Erdogan urges Israel to end its ‘madness’

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On Friday, the IDF announced an expansion of its ground operations in Gaza.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has demanded that Israel stop its attacks against Gaza. Earlier, Israel announced the expansion of its ground incursion into the Palestinian enclave.

In a message published on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, Erdogan claimed that Israeli bombardments target civilians and only deepen the humanitarian crisis. “Israel must immediately get out of this state of madness and stop its attacks,” the Turkish president said. He also called on Palestine supporters to join him for a rally in Istanbul, to “shout that we stand with the Palestinian people against Israeli oppression.”

On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it is “expanding ground operations” against Hamas in Gaza, while the air force intensified its aerial bombardment. Later, the largest telecommunications provider in Gaza, Paltel, announced the “complete severance of all communications and Internet services” due to massive airstrikes.

Later, multiple media outlets shared a message from Hamas, which claimed that it had managed to stop an attempted ground operation, adding that Israel’s military sustained heavy losses. However, according to the IDF, no soldiers were hurt in the expanded ground operation in Gaza. “Infantry, armored, engineering and artillery forces [are] participating in the activity, accompanied by heavy [air] fire,” the IDF spokesman told the Times of Israel, adding that “the forces are still on the ground and continue the fighting.”

Three weeks ago, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, killing over 1,400 people and taking scores of hostages. Israel responded with a massive wave of airstrikes on Gaza, which claimed over 7,000 lives.

Israel vowed to “obliterate” the Palestinian militant group and warned about an upcoming incursion into Gaza. However, according to a New York Times report published earlier this week, the ground operation became a point of contention between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the military. According to the NYT, Netanyahu declined to approve an invasion plan that was finalized by the IDF. Sources told the outlet that the fate of the hostages was among the main concerns, as there was hope that negotiations mediated by Qatar might be successful.

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  1. I’ve yet to see any empathy or compassion regarding what happened on 7 October in Israel coming out from the Arab and/or Islamic world. All I see are excuses or deflections of responsibility which speaks volumes.

    If anything is to be learned from this, it is that a mirror is being held up to humanity in order to show us what we are.

    • You are waiting on your own awakening of empathy and compassion.
      I do not want to ‘diss’ your comment, but I urge you to take an analytic research into the PEOPELS of this region without ‘religious’ bias, and I trust that you sentiment might change.
      Especially if you’ve figured out the real undertow.
      Or at least u might modify you sentiment in aforementioned comment, which of the latter part I wholeheartedly agree upon.

    • Watch Al-Jazeera for continous coverage. (Channel 20 on Freeview). They report live news and the massive violations of human rights that Israel continues to commit with impunity due to being backed-up by the Zionist-controlled West…
      Also, see Scott Ritter’s latest video ‘Monumental Oversight’ on YouTube.
      Turkey is sending 100 (one-hundred) warships into the Med as we speak…
      The US has sent C-17’s loaded with combat troops and their equipment…
      Go to Hal Turner’s website for more info & ‘Flash Traffic’.
      AGAIN…Scott Ritter’s above video and his other titled ‘2024’ are timely, and accurate assessments.
      The Middle East is about to become a wasteland.
      Make your preps now in NZ for orchestrated shortages.

  2. Israel sits on an estimated 14 million barrels of oil.
    Palestine sits on an estimated 1.7 BILLION barrels (121 times more).
    Draw your own conclusions….

    • Never mind harry, your ms yellen is going to print more $$ that the world does not want any more.
      She said it with a satanic laugh that the USA could afford two wars….

  3. Some world leaders need to look at themselves in the mirror before they speak. Millions of Armenians met their deaths at the hands of Turkish leaders in a mass genocide prior to WW1. Where were the leaders of western democracies when the covid genocide was inflicted on this country and no-one has yet been held accountable for those pandemic and vaccine deaths? Germany invaded Poland and Europe in WW2 yet in 2023, an Islamic invasion is flooding across the world and no-one speaks up or says a word. The EU and the UN are yet to be held accountable for that atrocity, forced upon member nations. Both are subservient to the WEF and Globalists. There will be no more Remembrance Days, nor Anzac Days in this country in future. Unless we act now to stop the immigration and hold world leaders accountable for the damage inflicted, we will forever be looking at yesterday in nostalgic terms, never to be repeated.

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