Erdogan: Israeli blockade and bombing of Gaza a ‘massacre’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today that Israel's blockade and bombing of Gaza in retaliation to Hamas' attack on Israel on Saturday was a disproportionate response, amounting to a "massacre".

Addressing his party in parliament, Erdogan said that even war had a "morality" but the tensions since the weekend have "very severely" violated that.
 
"Preventing people meeting their most fundamental needs and bombing housing where civilians live - in short, conducting a conflict using every sort of shameful method - is not a war, it's a massacre," he said, referring to Israel cutting off electricity and water, and blocking aid into Gaza, as well as destroying civilian infrastructure.