‘Total Silence on outrages’: Congress hits out at Centre over Gaza flotilla row as Ramesh flags Ben-Gvir video
The Congress party questioned the Centre's silence on Israel’s handling of activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
The Congress party questioned the Centre's silence on Israel’s handling of activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
I n late April, Amal Khalil, a 43-year-old Lebanese journalist, was killed in a double-tap Israeli strike in southern Lebanon. When rescue teams tried to reach her and another injured journalist, they reportedly also came under fire.
So begins Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, a haunting chronicle of young men extinguished before their time. Through the trenches of history, the young have always been collateral in wars they neither started nor understood.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday strongly criticised the Centre over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Israel, questioning its timing amid escalating violence in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
US President Donald Trump will convene the inaugural Board of Peace meeting, during which member states will announce over $5 billion in investment for Gaza reconstruction and related security measures.
Palestine welcomed Luxembourg’s announcement to recognize its statehood, urging other countries to follow. The move comes amid escalating violence in Gaza, described as genocide by a UN commission, with EU and international calls for a two-state solution.
It cites statements by Israeli leaders, and the pattern of conduct by Israeli forces, as evidence of genocidal intent.
The strike in Doha that targeted senior Hamas leaders marks a decisive rupture in the fragile framework of diplomacy that had been holding together attempts to end the Gaza war.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu vowed there will be no Palestinian state, asserting Jewish ownership over the land, as Israel pushes forward settlement plans in the sensitive E1 area. The move drew global condemnation, with the UN warning it threatens Palestinian statehood, and Britain and France set to recognise Palestine at the UN.
As Israel carried out strikes against Hamas’ political leadership in Qatar’s capital Doha, US President Donald Trump attempted to distance his administration from the attack, saying that Israel acted alone.
