An Israeli footballer who showed a message alluding to the Israel-Hamas battle during a match in Turkey has been arrested, as per reports in Turkish media.
Prior on Sunday, the justice minister declared an investigation concerning Sagiv Jehezkel over the occurrence for suspected "incitement to hate", after his club, Antalyaspor, fired him over the matter.
After scoring a goal for his team against Trabsonspor, Jehezkel uncovered a message which read "100 days. 07/10" on a gauze to his left side wrist.
The message was a reference to the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October and the quantity of days that in excess of 130 Israeli hostages have been held in Gaza. Israel's continuous attack to annihilate Hamas has killed around 23,000 individuals in Gaza - generally women and children - as per the Hamas-run health ministry.
"The Antalya public prosecutor's office has opened a legal investigation against Israeli footballer Sagiv Jehezkel for public prompting to detest because of his celebration for the massacre committed by Israel in Gaza," said Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc in a post on the web.
"We will keep on supporting the oppressed Palestinians," he added, condemning what he portrayed as progressing "genocide" in Gaza.
Antalyaspor said it had fired the Israeli player, blaming him for having "acted against the values of our country".
Starting from the beginning of the contention, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a traditional supporter of the Palestinian cause, has over and over depicted Israel as a "terrorist state", firming Hamas is a "group of liberators".
