‘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.
The latest White House discussions on Gaza’s future, attended by senior American officials and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, highlight once again how international diplomacy often imagines solutions in abstract terms, divorced from the desperate realities on the ground.
Response from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) comes after Israel struck Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, killing at least 21 people, including five journalists, in a "double-tap" attack, amid intensifying Israeli offensives in the besieged enclave.
Israel's army said that the deadly double strike on Gaza's Nasser Hospital targeted a camera allegedly installed by Hamas, according to findings from an initial inquiry.
The Prime Minister's Office of Israel on Monday expressed deep regret over the tragic mishap at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza.
A UN-backed panel has confirmed famine in Gaza City for the first time, warning it could soon spread to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis. The IPC said the crisis is human-made and urged urgent aid access. Meanwhile, Israeli PM Netanyahu approved military plans to seize Gaza City while also calling for immediate hostage negotiations.
