Turkey announced new measures against Israel for the Gaza Strip

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, in a press conference in Ankara, announced that Turkey will impose a series of new sanctions against Israel because the Israeli government does not allow humanitarian aid to be dropped into Gaza by Turkish transport aircraft. He said that “for some time now, humanitarian aid has been delivered to Gaza by parachute through Jordan. We had submitted our request to participate in this humanitarian relief operation with our Air Force cargo planes. We learned today that this request, which was accepted with satisfaction by the Jordanian authorities, was rejected by Israel.” He argued that “there can be no excuse for Israel to obstruct our effort to airlift aid to the starving Gazans.” Faced with this situation, Hakan Fidan continued, Turkey decided to take a series of new measures against Israel, according to the Athens Agency. These measures, which were approved […]
Source: News Beast

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