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Turkey’s Erdoğan says Israeli PM solely responsible for latest Middle East escalation

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli leadership are solely responsible for the recent escalation of tensions in the Middle East, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday.

“Israel is trying to provoke a regional conflict, and its attack on Iran’s embassy in Damascus was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” he told a press conference in Ankara after a cabinet meeting.

“Netanyahu[Israeli PM -TVP World] is endangering the lives of both his own citizens and all the peoples of the region to extend his political life. This is an indisputable fact: the one responsible for the tension that made our hearts skip a beat on the night of April 13 is Netanyahu and his government, which is seeing red,” he further remarked.

He added that new regional conflicts were possible as long as the “cruelty and genocide” in Gaza continued, and called on all parties to act with common sense. He also slammed the West for condemning Iran’s attack but not Israel’s strike on Iran’s embassy.

Iran attacked Israel with hundreds of explosive drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles launched on Saturday night, to which Israeli officials have vowed to respond.

Iran called the barrage retaliation for an Israeli strike that flattened a building in its embassy compound in Damascus on April 1 and killed two of its generals and several other officers.
Source: Reuters
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