While Turkey over the weekend approved the reconciliation agreement with Israel, the Turkish Foreign Ministry was quick to condemn IDF air strikes over Gaza which were in retaliation for a rocket attack into Sderot on Sunday. B’chasdei Hashem there were no fatalities or injuries in the attack as a rocket landed between two homes. There was property damage however. The attack led to an Israeli response in which dozens of terrorist targets in Gaza were hit.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister was quoted calling the IDF response a “hostile attitude” and fell short of any condemnation of the unprovoked rocket fire into southern Israel from Gaza. The statement continued, adding the attacks which led to injuries to innocent Palestinians are “not acceptable regardless of their grounds”.

The ministry statement added that reconciliation with Israel does not mean Turkey will remain silent in the face of such actions.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)