Israel on Sunday rejected international calls for an inquiry into the killing of 16 Palestinians by Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border during a mass demonstration on Friday.

“We shall not cooperate with any commission of inquiry,” Avigdor Lieberman told Israel’s public radio, torpedoing entreaties by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini for an independent investigation into the deaths.

In addition to the 16 killed, Palestinian health officials said more than 700 people were injured in Friday’s violence, making it the most deadly day in Gaza since the end of the 2014 war.

On Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being "a terrorist" after the Israeli prime minister rejected Ankara's "moral lessons" over deadly clashes in Gaza.

"Hey Netanyahu! You are occupier. And it is as an occupier that are you are on those lands. At the same time, you are a terrorist," Erdogan said in a televised speech in Adana, southern Turkey.

However, Mr Netanyahu rejected Turkish criticism, likening it to an April Fools joke.

"The most moral army in the world will not be lectured to on morality from someone who for years has been bombing civilians indiscriminately," he wrote on Twitter.