Turkey and Israel spar over Gaza

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stalked off the stage red-faced at the World Economic Forum, after verbally sparring with Israeli President Shimon Peres over the fighting in Gaza.

Erdogan was angry after being cut off by a panel moderator after listening to an impassioned monologue by Peres defending Israel’s recent offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Erdogan declared to Peres: “You are killing people.”

A finger-pointing Peres told Erdogan that he would have done the same if rockets had been falling on Istanbul.