Mani Shankar Aiyar, Danish Ali amongst opposition leaders to go to Palestinian embassy to specific solidarity

On sixteenth October (Monday), a gaggle of opposition leaders, together with BSP MP Danish Ali and senior Congress chief Mani Shankar Aiyar visited the Palestine Embassy in New Delhi to specific their solidarity with Palestinians.

VIDEO | “We went there to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine,” says BSP MP @OkDanishAli on opposition leaders visiting the Palestine Embassy in Delhi.#IsraelGazaConflict pic.twitter.com/zI5M48dZmt

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) October 16, 2023

The opposition leaders additionally submitted a joint decision to Palestinian Ambassador Adnan Abu Alhaija stating that they imagine violence isn’t an answer because it results in a cycle of destruction and struggling. They additionally emphasised that the worldwide neighborhood ought to enhance its efforts to convey a peaceable decision to the battle.

As per media experiences, the joint decision offered to the Palestinian Ambassador was signed by 16 opposition leaders. The signatories of the joint decision included Congress’ Mani Shankar Aiyar, RJD’s Manoj Ok Jha, CPI’s D Raja, CPI(ML)’s Dipankar Bhattacharya, CPI(M)’s Subhashini Ali and Nilotpal Basu, Samajwadi Party’s Javed Ali Khan, JD(U)’s KC Tyagi and BSP’s Danish Ali amongst others.

Opposition leaders, together with Mani Shankar Aiyar, Manoj Jha, KC Tyagi and others, difficulty a joint assertion after a number of opposition leaders met the Palestinian envoy in Delhi earlier at the moment. pic.twitter.com/k2aI9MHIky

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The joint decision mentioned, “Recognising that the Palestinian people have endured immeasurable suffering for over 75 years, we firmly assert that now is the time to end their plight. We urge the international community to recognise the establishment of an independent Palestinian state along the 1967 borders in accordance with the UN resolutions. Such recognition is a crucial step towards ensuring a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, providing the Palestinian people with the opportunity to determine their own destiny and live in peace and security.” 

The opposition leaders additionally demanded, “The international community must exert pressure on the state of Israel to abide by international laws and respect the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people. We call for intensified diplomatic efforts and multilateral initiatives to ensure a lasting peace in the region.”

VIDEO | “We met the Ambassador and expressed our solidarity (with Palestine),” says JD(U) chief KC Tyagi on opposition leaders visiting the Palestine Embassy in Delhi.#IsraelGazaConflict pic.twitter.com/KIuLqULDh4

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) October 16, 2023

VIDEO | “We are here to express our solidarity (with Palestine),” says CPI (ML) normal secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on his go to to the Palestine Embassy in Delhi.#IsraelGazaConflict pic.twitter.com/Uvc26fvmRh

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) October 16, 2023

Speaking about their go to to the Palestinian Embassy, the CPI(ML) normal secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya mentioned, “In India, everywhere, we are raising our voice with the people of the world. The voice for peace must ring louder now because what is happening in Gaza right now is not just killing of the people there indiscriminately but pushing the world to the brink of the third world war.” 

They additionally expressed ‘deep concern’ over the continuing disaster in Gaza and the struggling of the Palestinian folks. Subsequently, the opposition leaders, by way of the joint decision urged an instantaneous cessation of all hostilities to stop additional lack of harmless lives and the destruction of properties and infrastructure.

They recalled Mahatma Gandhi’s remarks that “Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French”. They added that it mirrored his perception within the significance of recognising the sovereignty and territorial rights of the Palestinian folks, simply as some other nation’s proper to their homeland.

Earlier, on ninth October, the Congress Party expressed its sympathy for Palestinians and prolonged its assist by passing a decision within the Congress Working Committee (CWC) voicing considerations over the scenario and urging for a ceasefire. The decision nonetheless backed the Palestinian folks’s rights. 

Israel Hamas battle

On the ninth day (fifteenth October) of the Israel Hamas battle, the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, revealed that the Hamas terrorists got a booklet known as “The Warrior’s Guide: Jihadi Version”. The booklet described the inhumane strategies the Islamist terrorists ought to undertake to torture the hostages. This included terrifying hostages, giving them electrical shocks, and even executing ISIS-style live-streamed executions. The handbook was discovered on the physique of a Hamas terrorist killed in Gaza throughout counterattacks by Israel.

מכות חשמל והוצאה להורג בשידור חי הם רק חלק מתכנית חטיפת השבויים האכזרית של ארגון הטרור חמאס.

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— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) October 15, 2023

On seventh October, Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organisation, killed over 1,300 Israelis, together with 150+ troopers, ladies, aged, and infants on a Jewish vacation. Several international nationals had been additionally killed or kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. Israeli forces are nonetheless discovering our bodies, a few of them had been charred to demise. Burnt homes, useless households, and ruined villages present how horrendous the assault was.