Overview
- Turkey’s president accused Israel of massacres and said his country could enter Israel like past operations in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh.
- State media reported that Turkish prosecutors filed indictments against 35 senior Israeli figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu, alleging crimes against humanity and seeking multi‑millennium prison terms.
- The Turkish Foreign Ministry labeled Netanyahu “the Hitler of our time” and cited an International Criminal Court warrant and a genocide case at the International Court of Justice.
- Israeli leaders fired back online, with Netanyahu accusing Erdoğan of killing Kurdish citizens, Defense Minister Israel Katz calling him a Muslim Brotherhood figure, and Itamar Ben Gvir posting an insult.
- Israel and the United States rejected Turkish claims about a ceasefire covering Lebanon and mass displacement there, and there has been no announcement of new military operations despite the heated rhetoric.