‘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.
In a world grown cynical about ceasefires, the Gaza peace deal announced this week stands out as a moment few believed possible.
The UN humanitarian scale-up in the Gaza Strip is well underway, with cooking gas entering Gaza for the first time since March, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the country's military campaign "is not over," on the eve of the planned release of all living Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian detainees under the next stage of the newly implemented Gaza ceasefire with Hamas.
The announcement of a phased peace plan between Israel and Hamas marks a moment of both relief and uncertainty for a region long accustomed to despair.
US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) outlined his upcoming visits to Israel and Egypt, following the Israeli government's approval of phase one of the Gaza peace plan.
