[January 15, AFP]An Israeli player playing in Turkey’s first division soccer league was arrested for displaying a message about the military conflict between Israel and the Islamic group Hamas during a match, multiple Turkish media reported on the 14th. reported.
The person who was arrested was Antalyaspor’s Sagiv Jehezkel, who has played eight times for the Israeli national team. After scoring against Trabzonspor on the 14th, Yehesker showed a message written on the tape on his left hand: “100 days October 7.”
The message appears to be a reference to the 100 days since October 7 last year, when Hamas launched an attack on Israel, sparking clashes and taking hostages. The attack resulted in more than 1,000 Israeli casualties and nearly 250 hostages. Israel says 132 people remain detained in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, the Gaza Strip’s health ministry said more than 23,000 people, many of them women and children, were killed in retaliatory Israeli airstrikes.
Prior to the report, Türkiye’s Ministry of Justice announced that it had begun an investigation. Minister Yilmaz Tunc said on He is suspected of holding a celebration and inciting hatred among the people.”
Antalyaspor has already fired Yehesker for “acting against the values of our country.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, long known as a pro-Palestinian, has repeatedly referred to Israel as a “terrorist state” and Hamas as a “group of liberators” since the start of the conflict. (c)AFP
Source: Japanese