‘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.
Israel’s announcement that the Rafah crossing will soon reopen for Palestinians seeking to leave Gaza has been framed as a gesture of support for the ongoing ceasefire.
Palestine Ambassador Abdullah Abu Shawesh said that he had a "very good discussion" regarding the reconstruction of Gaza with India's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assured that New Delhi will be with Palestine "very soon on a practical level in Gaza and the West Bank also."
Humanitarians are working to provide shelter support and have deployed rapid response teams after heavy rains flooded thousands of displaced families in Gaza, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Israel's Defence Ministry has proposed an ambitious record defence budget of 144 billion shekels (USD 45 billion) for 2026 as the country seeks to rebuild and strengthen its military following the end of its three-year-long war with Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
Israeli authorities are preventing dozens of families of Palestinian prisoners deported to Egypt from travelling from the West Bank, head of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Abdullah al-Zaghari, said Wednesday.
