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Football: an Israeli player arrested and excluded from his club in Turkey, accused of “incitement to hatred”

An Israeli footballer who posted a message on Sunday referring to the conflict between Israel and Hamas during a Turkish first division championship match was arrested and expelled from his team and is being investigated for "public incitement to hatred”.

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Football: an Israeli player arrested and excluded from his club in Turkey, accused of “incitement to hatred”

An Israeli footballer who posted a message on Sunday referring to the conflict between Israel and Hamas during a Turkish first division championship match was arrested and expelled from his team and is being investigated for "public incitement to hatred”. “The Antalya public prosecutor's office has opened a judicial investigation against Israeli footballer Sagiv Jehezkel for 'public incitement to hatred' due to his odious celebration in favor of the massacre committed by Israel in Gaza,” announced the Turkish Minister of Justice Yilmaz Tunç on the social network

Author of a goal during a Sunday match in the Turkish Süper Lig, the Antalyaspor player, who also has 8 caps with the Israeli national team, brandished the message “100 days. 07/10” written on a bandage on one of his wrists. This short message, referring to the hundred days that have passed since the bloody attack launched on October 7 by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli soil, is interpreted by the Turkish Minister of Justice as a testimony of support for Israeli military operations launched in retaliation in the Gaza Strip.

“We will continue to support the oppressed Palestinians,” wrote the Turkish minister, denouncing an ongoing “genocide” in Gaza. The Antalyaspor club announced that it had excluded its Israeli player, whom it accused of having “acted against the values ​​of our country”. Since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a traditional ally of the Palestinian cause, has repeatedly described Israel as a "terrorist state", believing that Hamas, considered a terrorist group by European Union and many countries including the United States, was a “group of liberators”.

According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip have left at least 23,968 dead, mainly civilians. The unprecedented attack launched on October 7 by Hamas on Israeli soil left around 1,140 dead, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on Israeli data.

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