Oct 22, 2024 11:28 AM IST
India has reaffirmed its dedication to a peaceable “two-state resolution” for Palestine, supporting a sovereign, impartial state coexisting with Israel.
The ministry of exterior affairs introduced on Tuesday that India’s first tranche of help has been despatched to Palestine amid its ongoing battle with Israel.
A complete of 30 tons of humanitarian help has been dispatched to Palestine by United Nations Reduction and Works Company, comprising important medicines, surgical supplies, and high-energy biscuits.
“India sends humanitarian help for the individuals of Palestine by UNRWA. The primary tranche of help comprising 30 tons of drugs and meals objects has departed as we speak. The consignment contains a variety of important medicines and surgical provides, dental merchandise, normal medical objects and high-energy biscuits,” stated exterior affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.
Earlier in July, India launched the tranche of USD 2.5 million to the United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees within the Close to East (UNRWA), as a part of its annual contribution of USD 5 million for the 12 months 2024-25.
India has reiterated its agency and enduring dedication to resolving the Palestine subject by peaceable means, backing a negotiated “two-state resolution” that goals for the formation of a “sovereign, impartial, and viable” Palestinian state residing in concord with Israel.
Israel and Hamas have been waging conflict since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group within the Gaza Strip stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 individuals and capturing 253 hostages, by Israeli tallies.
Israel responded with a army offensive in Gaza by which greater than 41,500 Palestinians have been killed, in keeping with Gaza well being authorities.
Practically the whole inhabitants of two.3 million individuals within the enclave have been displaced from their properties and far of the territory has been laid to waste.
The Gaza conflict is the bloodiest episode but in a protracted battle between Israelis and Palestinians that has rumbled for seven a long time and destabilised the Center East.
Current weeks have additionally seen a dramatic escalation in a associated battle throughout Israel’s border with Lebanon, the place the Iran-backed armed motion Hezbollah says it’s preventing in solidarity with the Palestinians.
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