Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for Israel's destruction while wishing people on Eid al-Fitr. The country's state-run news agency Anadolu quoted him as saying, "We all know what is happening in Palestine...May Allah damn Zionist Israel." Referring to Gazans, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihadist terrorists, he wished for "mercy upon martyrs" and "speedy recovery of veterans".