Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed his attacks on Israel as he arrived in Tirana, the first stop of a Balkans tour that will also take him to Serbia, AFP reports.

Repeating his claim that Israel’s actions in Gaza constituted “genocide”, he branded it the “shame of humanity”, at a joint press conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.

“The international community, we must do our best to urgently guarantee a permanent ceasefire and exert the necessary pressure on Israel,” he added.

“The genocide that has been going on in Gaza for the past year is the common shame of all humanity,” he added.

Erdogan has branded Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the “butcher of Gaza” and compared him to Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler.

“The aggression led by the Netanyahu government now threatens the world order beyond the region,” Erdogan said.