Anti-Israeli sentiment

The Indian Navy has reported tracking the Bulgarian cargo ship "Ruen", flying the Maltese flag, after it was hijacked in the Arabian Sea. The vessel is believed to have been seized by Somali pirates, although their identity has yet to be confirmed.

Three Israeli hostages who were mistakenly shot by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip had been waving a white flag and were shirtless when they were killed, military officials said Saturday, in Israel's first such acknowledgement of harming any hostages in its war against Hamas.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has emphasized the need to shield the younger generation from what he termed as the "insidious, destructive and negative effects" of international social media platforms.

Israel said its troops had killed three Gaza hostages after mistaking them for a threat, as the U.S. has called on Israel to scale down its military operations and focus specifically on targeting Hamas leaders.

The Israeli military said Yotam Haim, Alon Shamriz and Samer El-Talalqa were shot during operations in a neighbourhood of Gaza City.

The strangest part of her seven-week ordeal, said Chen Goldstein-Almog, formerly an Israeli hostage of Hamas, were the long, almost intimate conversations she had with her captors.

They talked about their families, their lives and the extreme danger they all faced.

US President Joe Biden has a "positive perspective" on the sale of F-16s to Turkey and is ready to present his proposal to Congress, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.

Speaking to reporters in Istanbul on Friday, Erdogan said the issue came up in the "detailed conversation" he had with his US counterpart on Thursday evening.

Israel will fight the war against the Palestinian movement Hamas "until complete victory". This was stated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, who arrived in Israel for a visit, the Prime Minister's Office reported, as quoted by BTA.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, that the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza as a result of indiscriminate Israeli attacks must be stopped and recalled that it was the United States' historic responsibility to achieve a lasting ceasefire in the region.

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will be in Israel today and tomorrow.

The UN has again emphasized that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic. According to the Palestinian side, 18,600 people died in the Israeli operation against Hamas.

Israel bombed Gaza on Thursday as a top White House advisor was due to arrive in Jerusalem with a rift growing over U.S. calls for its ally to exercise restraint.

The war has left besieged Gaza in ruins, killing more than 18,600 people, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, and devastating homes, roads, schools and hospitals.