“I do not need to tell the world how cruel the Israeli army is. We can see what this terror state is doing by looking at the situation in Gaza and Jerusalem,” Erdogan said, according to the Daily Sabah.

"Israel has carried out a massacre in Gaza and Netanyahu is a terrorist,” he continued. "We will continue to expose Israeli terror all the time and on all platforms.”

The comments came after Netanyahu suggested that Erdogan was playing an April Fool’s Day prank when his spokesman described Friday’s killing of protesters in Gaza as “inhumane”.

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More than 1,400 people were injured and 17 were killed when the Israeli military opened fire on Palestinian protesters on the border between Gaza and Israel on Friday. The IDF also used rubber bullets and tear gas on the demonstrators.

Taking to Twitter to describe Israeli forces as “the most moral army in the world” Netanyahu accused the Turkish military of bombing civilians.  

“The most moral army in the world will not be lectured by those who have indiscriminately bombed civilian populations for years,” Netanyahu said. “apparently this is how April Fool’s Day is celebrated in Ankara.”

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Netanyahu’s tweet came in response to Ankara’s criticism of the IDF’s use of lethal force on the Gaza protesters which it described as a “disproportionate use of force”. In a statement following the clashes it demanded that Tel Aviv “immediately stop resorting to force, which further exacerbates the tension in the region.”

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