Gaza

Israel have admitted that their military have used crop-dusters to destroy hundreds of acres of Palestinian crops for “security operations” reasons.  Palestinian officials say that poisons were sprayed in land inside the Gaza strip which has ended up killing most of the vegetation. Sputniknews.com reports: “For years now, the IDF has unilaterally maintained a lethal ‘no-go zone’ on the Palestinian side of the border with Gaza. Now, it seems, it has also implemented a ‘no-grow zone,’” Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man wrote for +972.

Submitted by Shoshana Bryen via The Gatestone Institute,

• Erdogan came to office in 2003 with a policy of "zero problems with neighbors," but has since led Turkey to problems with most, if not all, of them.

• Turkey's foreign policy choices and current crises have combined to make Erdogan reach out to Israel for help.