Days after a reconciliation deal was ratified by the Turkish parliament, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Turkey and Israel plan to appoint ambassadors in the next few days.

The announcement came a day after Jerusalem and Ankara traded fierce recriminations over Israel’s bombardment of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as a response to a rocket attack from Gaza on the Israeli border town of Sderot.

“The normalization of relations with Israel does not mean that we have to remain silent about attacks against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” the Turkish statement read. “On the contrary, we will continue to defend the Palestinian issue in the face of Israeli actions which violate international law and are contrary to basic human morality.”

Israel’s foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon responded by saying : ‘’The normalization of our relations with Turkey does not mean that we will remain silent in the face of its baseless condemnations.”

“Israel will continue to defend its civilians from all rocket fire on our territory, in accordance with international law and our conscience. Turkey should think twice before criticizing the military actions of others,” he said.

Turkey and Israel reached an agreement in July to end a six-year fight caused by an Israeli naval raid on a pro-Palestinian Turkish activist ship trying to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Ten Turkish activists were killed in the raid.

Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador and suspended all defense ties in 2011.

In June 2016 the two countries reached agreement on restoring ties and Israel’s security cabinet approved the deal.