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Indian Express
12-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
‘Facing joint Israel-US war in Gaza': Palestine situation is a litmus test for global order, says ambassador Abdullah Abu Shawesh
The Palestine situation is a litmus test for the global order, Abdullah Abu Shawesh, the Palestinian Ambassador to India, told the media in New Delhi on Friday, adding that they are facing a 'joint Israel-US war' in Gaza. Slamming the Western countries for 'giving away their homeland', Shawesh said that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had destroyed two schools and a university library that were built with funding from India. 'There is nothing left in Gaza,' he added. He also criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who met American President Donald Trump recently and nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize—and pointed to the 'genocide in Gaza'. Shawesh's remarks were made during an interactive session organised by the Indian Women's Press Corps. 'It is a joint Israel-US war we are facing in Gaza. Israel also has the support of many other Western countries, including the United Kingdom,' he said. Asked about India's stand on the issue, in the light of the fact that it has bilateral ties with both Israel and Palestine, Shawesh said, 'I can talk about it at the macro level…We valued India's position (on it) through the United Nations General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council and other places. India is still supporting Palestinians.' India had also strongly condemned the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and the loss of civilian lives in the Israel-Hamas conflict. India has consistently called for the release of all hostages and emphasised the need for safe, timely and sustained delivery of humanitarian assistance, and creating conditions for an early resumption of direct peace negotiations towards a two-state solution to the Palestine issue. The envoy said everyone talks about the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, but the people of Palestine had 'suffered' before that. He also referred to the more-than-a-century-old Balfour Declaration and the subsequent chain of events that led to the creation of Israel in 1948. 'The Palestinian question is a quest for a global order; it is a litmus test,' he said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the Summit of the Future in New York in September 2024 and called for a ceasefire, the release of the hostages, and a return to the path of dialogue and diplomacy. Divya A reports on travel, tourism, culture and social issues - not necessarily in that order - for The Indian Express. She's been a journalist for over a decade now, working with Khaleej Times and The Times of India, before settling down at Express. Besides writing/ editing news reports, she indulges her pen to write short stories. As Sanskriti Prabha Dutt Fellow for Excellence in Journalism, she is researching on the lives of the children of sex workers in India. ... Read More
New Indian Express
11-07-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
The Gaza Genocide: Is Israel remaking the Middle East?
Will there be an end to the Israeli genocidal war on Palestine soon? How can the truce be achieved if Israel plans to forcefully displace 5,50,000 Palestinians out of Gaza into Rafah and refuses to agree to withdraw completely from Gaza? And as for the Hamas' hostage release offer, is this Hamas' last card in play? What happens to Hamas, already into its third leadership change? And where does this leave Iran? Watch the video of TNIE's senior journalist Neena Gopal talk to experts, the respected Palestinian Ambassador to India, Abdullah Abu Shawesh; Prof Rouzbeh Parsi, Adjunct Lecturer, Lund University in Sweden; and Dr Alvite Ningthoujam from Symbiosis School of International Studies, to decode the issues at a time when the Middle East is in a flux.
India Gazette
09-07-2025
- Politics
- India Gazette
Not a conflict, it is
New Delhi [India], July 10 (ANI): Palestinian Ambassador to India, Abdullah Abu Shawesh, said that the conflict between Israel and Gaza is not a conflict and termed it Israel's 'brutal aggression', which he said has continued for 642 days. He expressed hope that Israel's brutal aggression and massacre would come to an end 'very soon.' Speaking to ANI, Shawesh said that approximately 10,000 civilians have lost their lives due to the conflict in Gaza, which has lasted for the past 642 days. When asked about the Israel-Gaza conflict, he said, 'I find all the time myself having no other choice except to correct somebody's very minor vocabulary, which is very important. When you mention that conflict, this is not conflict, this is an Israeli brutal massacre and it was continued for 642 days so far, so that it's ..a massacre, it's a genocide, it's not a conflict and it is very important. But this conflict or this genocide, this genocide, I'm sorry, this genocide was costing us so far for the last 642 days, approximately 100,000 innocent civilians, or the vast majority of them is women and children. How did we see it? We hope that very soon there will be an end of this war or end of the Israeli brutal aggression, brutal massacre against the Palestinians.' He emphasised that a ceasefire occurs when there are two armies fighting against each other and said it is not the case in Gaza. He mentioned that they cannot talk about a ceasefire with regards to Gaza conflict, but speak about Israel and the US ending the war in Gaza. Regarding the potential ceasefire, he said, 'When you said that there is a ceasefire, this means that you still believe and of course you're very distinguished and very respectful followers, there are two armies who are fighting against each other. This is the exact meaning of ceasefire when we use the word according again to the international law, using the ceasefire, this means that there are two armies fighting against each other, which is not the case, unfortunately.' 'There is American-Israeli weapons. American is at the hands of the Israelis, supported and with the total complicity of many Western country is launching a war against the Palestinian people on Gaza and on the West Bank. This war cost us thousands and thousands of civilians. So, there is, we cannot talk about ceasefire. We can talk about ending the Israeli, the American-Israeli war on Gaza,' he added. On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump's foreign envoy, Steve Witkoff, said that he hoped to have a Gaza ceasefire deal by the end of the week as negotiators make substantial progress working through remaining issues. Trump also met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday. Abdullah Abu Shawesh said that India has a lot of running projects in Palestine, which are supporting the sustainable development there. He stressed that it is time for the Indian government to push more projects on sustainable development in Palestine. When asked about the role played by India amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, he said, 'To continue supporting the they used to support the Palestinian, question like how did they still supporting the Palestinian question and then I mean in the United Nations and international arena to still and to continue supporting the Palestinians when it came to the financial or the sustainable development issue.' 'India have a lot of projects and running projects in Palestine which is supporting the sustainable development, the Palestinians and the sustainable development level. This is the exact time for India and for the Indian people, for the Indian government to push more for more project when it came to the sustainable development, specially while we are facing an intentional policy, Israeli policy to bankruptcy the Palestinian government and Palestinian authority,' he added. (ANI)
