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Türkiye said on Saturday it was recalling its ambassador to Israel for consultations due to Israel's refusal to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza.

The Turkish foreign ministry said Şakir Özkan Torunlar was being recalled "in view of the unfolding humanitarian tragedy in Gaza caused by the continuing attacks by Israel against civilians, and Israel's refusal (to accept) a ceasefire."

This year's joint armed forces exercise between Greece and Egypt named Medusa-13, which was scheduled to take place at the Myrtoan Sea and Crete on November 16-24 has been canceled due to the ongoing war in Israel, the Hellenic National Defence General Staff announced on Friday.

The cancelation was requested by Egypt and will take place next year, it added.

When I spoke with the writer Etgar Keret at home in Tel Aviv earlier this week, he was in anguish.

As the humanitarian crisis escalates in Israeli-besieged Gaza, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis confirmed on Friday that a Greek C-130 military transport aircraft loaded with essential supplies, including food, drinking water, and medicine, will depart for the Hamas-ruled enclave, home to 2.3 million people, on Monday.

Nineteen days ago, the Israeli occupation committed yet another massacre, adding to the long list of massacres it has committed against the indigenous Palestinian people.

They say, "It will take as long as it takes."

Bolivia severed diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009, after Israel launched an offensive in Gaza.
The two countries renewed relations ten years later in 2019.
Ten days after the Palestinian group Hamas attacked Israel and Israel's total siege of the Gaza Strip that followed, Colombia asked the Israeli Ambassador to leave the country.

Just last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted a new era of peace and prosperity in the Middle East, based on growing acceptance of Israel within the region.

Today, with the Israel-Hamas war in its fourth week, that vision is in tatters.

The war between Israel and Hamas could deal a "serious" blow to global economic development, the president of the World Bank told an investor conference in Saudi Arabia yesterday.

That scenario would mean the United States would have to evacuate hundreds of thousands of American nationals from the region.
This means that hundreds of thousands of American citizens would be evacuated from the region, of which about 600,000 are in Israel and Lebanon, the Washington Post said, citing as many as four officials involved in the development of that plan.

Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini's diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the latest trilateral summit between Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, where energy cooperation was at the heart of discussions.

This included expanding their cooperation to include possibly linking Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Europe.