Second Intifada

Israel should be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the recent massacre committed by Israeli security forces against Palestinians, just like any crime against humanity, Turkey's top diplomat said, adding that Turkey has been providing all legal assistance to the state of Palestine to this end.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on May 15 called on the world's more than 1.5 billion Muslims to "band together" over the Palestinian cause after more than 60 people were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Thousands all around Turkey launched demonstrations in protest of the killing of more than 60 Palestinians by Israeli security forces on May 14.

Israel has been condemned harshly by many countries across the world for the killing of at least 60 Palestinians during protests that erupted against the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on May 14.

In a jarring contrast, Israeli forces shot and killed 59 Palestinians and injured more than 2,700 during mass protests Monday along the Gaza border, while just a few miles away Israel and the U.S. held a festive inauguration ceremony for the new American Embassy in contested Jerusalem.

Israel's defense minister said on April 22 a Palestinian scientist shot dead in Malaysia was a rocket expert and "no saint," but dismissed suggestions by Hamas that Israel's Mossad spy agency assassinated him.

A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces on the Gaza border on April 3, the health ministry in the strip said, as tensions remained high days after 17 people were killed when a mass demonstration led to clashes.

Numbers of Palestinians were detained by Israeli security forces as clashes were continuing with the prosteters in eastern Jerusalem on Dec. 9.

Israeli troops are using live ammunition and teargas to disperse Palestinian protests in different parts of the occupied West Bank and in East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to Anadolu Agency correspondents at the scene.

Jordan's King Abdullah II and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on Aug. 21 for new "serious and effective" peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, the royal palace said.