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https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-turkey-trade-blows-row-nato-complicity-gaza-israel-war/
Turkey has doubled down on a pledge to block NATO cooperation with Israel until a "permanent cease-fire" is in place in Gaza, amid an escalating war of words over the humanitarian crisis in the region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan earlier this week accused Israel of violating the fundamental human rights of Palestinians in its military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
"The brutal murder of innocent people by Israel in hospitals where they go for treatment, in ambulances, in marketplaces, in centers where humanitarian aid is distributed, and in areas defined as safe, is the gravest violation of human rights," Erdoğan said in an interview with Newsweek.