Turkey's Istanbul prosecutor's office has filed an indictment against 35 Israeli suspects, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over the 2010 Israeli military raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla (an international aid convoy that attempted to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza), charging them with crimes against humanity, torture, unlawful detention, and genocide. The indictment alleges that Israeli forces intercepted the vessels in international waters in an illegal, grave, and systematic manner, detaining hundreds of civilian activists by force before deporting them. The move has triggered a fierce exchange of statements, with Netanyahu accusing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of backing Iran and suppressing Kurds, while Turkey's foreign ministry responded by calling Israeli officials' remarks "unbecoming and arrogant lies" and labelling Netanyahu "the Hitler of our age" — deepening an already fraught relationship between Ankara and Tel Aviv.