Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “thief” and a “tyrant” in the latest spat between the two leaders, Hurriyet Daily reported.

“The thief who heads Israel. For what he and his wife are on trial? For theft” he said on March 13 in reference to corruption allegations against the Israeli prime minister. “You are a tyrant. You are a tyrant who slaughters seven-year-old Palestinian kids,” Erdoğan stated. He warned Netanyahu to not provoke Muslims by making Israeli soldiers enter Muslims’ holy site in Jerusalem, he said. “We have never oppressed Jews,” he said.

Erdoğan noted that Israel dared to violate the al-Aqsa Mosque, deploying its boots on the floor of the third holiest site of Islam. “We will continue to fight till our last breath for the rights of the Palestinian people, and for al-Quds [Jerusalem] to be governed in a way that befits its importance for the Islamic world,” he said. “Instead of preventing the oppression of Muslims, Israel’s prime minister is targeting me as sort of an ‘investment’ for the upcoming elections. We will not reply to these social media bouncers.”