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04/09/2024April 9, 2024
Israel: Turkey has ‘unilaterally violated’ trade agreements, vows response
‘s foreign minister has accused Turkish President of “sacrificing the economic interests of the people of Turkey in order to support Hamas,” after imposed trade restrictions on Israel.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Ankara has “unilaterally violated” trade agreements and that Israel “will respond in kind,” promising retaliatory trade restrictions on Turkish products.
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Skip next section Turkey imposes trade restrictions on Israel over Gaza war
04/09/2024April 9, 2024
Turkey imposes trade restrictions on Israel over Gaza war
said on Tuesday that it would be imposing restrictions on exports to covering 54 products including construction materials such as cement, steel, iron, marble, brick and aluminium, as well as fertilizer and aviation fuel.
“This decision will remain in place until Israel declares a cease-fire [in ] immediately and allows adequate and uninterrupted flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza,” the Trade Ministry announced on social media.
The trade measures come a day after Ankara said Israel blocked an attempt by the Turkish air force to drop aid into Gaza, after which Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan vowing reprisals which would be implemented “step by step” and “without delay.”
After years of thawing relations, Turkey has become one of the harshest critics of , with branding Israel a “terrorist state.”
Erdogan has defended — which is considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States, the European Union and others — as “a liberation group.”
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Skip next section Hamas considering truce proposal despite it not meeting demands
04/09/2024April 9, 2024
Hamas considering truce proposal despite it not meeting demands
The Palestinian militant group said early on Tuesday that a new truce framework proposed by Qatari, Egyptian and American mediators on behalf of does not respond to demands, but that it would still be considered.
According to reports by the Reuters and AFP news agencies, the three-part proposal features a six-week halt in fighting to facilitate an exchange of female and child hostages held by Hamas for up to 900 Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
In a statement, Hamas said it “appreciates” the mediators’ efforts during talks in Cairo, Egypt, but described the proposal as “intransigent,” saying it doesn’t address Palestinian demands.
Late on Monday, a Hamas source told AFP that those demands included the return of displaced Palestinian civilians to northern and the delivery of 400-500 trucks of food aid to the territory per day.
“Despite this,” it said, “the movement’s leadership is studying the submitted proposal.”
The European Union as well as Israel, the United States, Germany and several other countries classify Hamas as a terrorist organization.
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Skip next section France, Jordan and Egypt leaders call for Gaza cease-fire
04/09/2024April 9, 2024
France, Jordan and Egypt leaders call for Gaza cease-fire
French President , his Egyptian counterpart and have called for an immediate Gaza cease-fire in a joint article for the Washington Post.
“The and the catastrophic humanitarian suffering it is causing must end now,” the three leaders wrote in the US broadsheet.
“We underline the urgent need to bring about a permanent cease-fire in Gaza,” they continued, saying that “violence, terror and war cannot bring peace to the Middle East.”
They argued that a two-state solution, which foresees the peaceful coexistence of and a Palestinian state based on the borders of the occupied by Israel since 1967, is “the only credible path to guaranteeing peace and security for all and ensuring that neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis ever have to relive the horrors that have befallen them since the October 7 attack.”
Some 1,200 people were killed during terror attacks on Israel by the Palestinian militant group on October 7, and a further 250 more taken hostage.
Retaliatory Israel air strikes and ground operations have since killed more than 33,200 people, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza, much of which has been left in ruins and .
Macron, el-Sisi and Abdullah therefore demanded the “immediate and unconditional implementation” of
mf/rt (AFP, Reuters, AP)
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