Türkiye's Head of Communications Burhanettin Duran on Monday slammed the latest Israeli attacks targeting Palestinians, stating that Tel Aviv's attacks "are deliberately sabotaging" all efforts to reach peace in Gaza.
“At a time when diplomatic initiatives aimed at achieving a ceasefire and lasting peace in Gaza are offering hope, Israel’s latest attacks targeting civilians and healthcare infrastructure are deliberately sabotaging all efforts toward peace," Duran said on the Türkiye social media platform NSosyal.
Duran stated that these attacks, which disregard the right to life of women, children, and innocent civilians, clearly demonstrate that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is interested not in ending the conflict but in deepening the crisis.
He urged the global community to "adopt a more effective and principled stance in order to stop these aggressive policies, which threaten regional stability."
"Under the leadership of our President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Türkiye will continue to stand by international law, human dignity and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, and to support all efforts aimed at establishing a just and lasting peace," he added.
Israeli air strikes despite ceasefire agreement
Israeli air strikes hit Gaza for a second straight day on Sunday, killing at least 18 Palestinians, medics said, despite US President Donald Trump's announcement of a breakthrough in efforts to implement last year's ceasefire agreement.
From dawn, Israeli jets hit Gaza City in the north, the central city of Deir al-Balah and the southern area of Khan Younis, causing the biggest daily death toll in weeks, according to Palestinian health officials.
Strikes on Deir al-Balah killed at least four people, Palestinian health officials said, and a separate attack wounded five people and set some tents ablaze in Mawasi, near Khan Younis, according to the civil emergency service.
A couple and their 9-year-old son were killed in a strike on a house in Mawasi, Palestinian officials said.
Another couple was killed with their child in a strike on an apartment in Gaza City, where two more people died in a strike on a tent near the office of the Egyptian representative mission, medics said. Later on Sunday, another two people were killed in the city's eastern Zeitoun neighbourhood, they added.
One person was killed near Jabalia in northern Gaza, Palestinian officials said.
Trump's Board of Peace, the US-led body overseeing the ceasefire, published on Friday a 15-point roadmap setting out the final steps for implementing the agreement.
Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace's lead envoy for Gaza, said the strikes across Gaza came despite efforts by the board and mediators to bring Palestinian factions to agree on the roadmap for the implementation of Trump's plan.
He said in a post on X that he was working with parties, mediators and regional partners to "de-escalate and create the space for the full implementation of the President's plan".
