Egypt–Israel relations

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Turkish and Egyptian top diplomats have elaborated on the further steps as part of the ongoing normalization of bilateral ties after the two counties' leaders agreed to exchange ambassadors after a decade of strained relations.

Turkey on Nov. 13 denounced Israeli attacks on the blockaded Gaza Strip, calling on the country to stop its state policy of aggression.

Israeli troops on Aug. 30 injured an Anadolu Agency photojournalist when he was covering peaceful rallies in Gaza Strip.

President Donald Trump assured Israel on May 5 that it has Washington's full support after the Jewish state led waves of strikes in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Turkey's main opposition party has condemned the Israeli warplane attack on the building in Gaza where the Anadolu Agency has its local office.

Tens of thousands of Gazans gathered at the Israeli border on March 30 to mark a year since protests and clashes erupted there, testing a fragile truce only 10 days ahead of an Israeli general election.

The Gaza Strip's economy is in "free fall," a report from the World Bank warned on Sept. 25, calling for urgent action by Israel and the international community to avoid "immediate collapse."

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) distributed meat on Aug. 23, the third day of the Eid al-Adha holiday, to 10,000 families in the blockaded Gaza Strip.

Israel reimposed a blockade of fuel supplies to Gaza on Thursday in response to a resurgence of the flow of fire kites across the border, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said.

Israel further tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip on July 17, preventing fuel deliveries through its only goods crossing with the Palestinian enclave after scores of kites carried firebombs across the border to burn Israeli farmland.