Following the attacks on the Freedom Flotilla in which 9 Turkish citizens were killed, Turkey has decided to continue severing ties with Israel by canceling the agreement it signed in 2000 to supply Israel with water for a 20 year period.

The newspaper also maintained that “The cancelled water project is not the first sign of Turkey's anger over the Gaza boats incident" adding Turkey has also recalled its ambassador, and has frozen a plan to supply Israel with natural gas from Russia using an underwater pipeline”.

According to the agreement Turkey would sell approximately 1.75 billion cubic feet of water per year.

The Israel National Newspaper asserted that the annulment of the agreement comes as a punishment to the Israeli entity for refusing to apologise, conduct an international investigation or compensate the martyrs ofthe Freedom Flotilla's families.