Turkey has told the US that its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict has both tarnished its reputation and put the entire world community in a tough spot, Hurriyet reported on Tuesday.
According to the Turkish daily, Ankara conveyed that message during a meeting between Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday, which concerned the current crisis in West Asia
The sit-down came amid heightened tensions between Turkey and the Israeli regime, Washington’s key ally in the region, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently accusing the regime of “war crimes” in Gaza and denouncing its ground assault as “an open, vicious massacre.”
The Zionist Israeli regime launched an aggression on Gaza Strip in Palestine on October 7 following the Hamas-led attack on southern the Occupied Lands in a most successful operation in decades known as the Al-Aqsa Storm Operation during which the Palestinian Resistance killed more than 1,400 Zionist regime soldiers and armed settlers and taking more than 200 of them to the besieged enclave as prisoners of war.
The death toll continues to mount in the Gaza Strip, which has been reeling from a month of relentless Israeli attacks and a tightened siege.
According to the Gaza-based health ministry, at least 10,022 Palestinians have been killed in the strikes, 70 percent of whom are women and children.
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