The second India-Japan consultation on the Middle East was held in the national capital on Thursday, and both sides discussed the challenges and political developments happening in the Middle East and West Asia region.
Despite claiming to be operating at a 172 per cent budget deficit, the Palestinian Authority recently recognized 899 new prisoners from Gaza and tens of thousands more Gaza "martyrs" as eligible for controversial "pay for slay" payouts, according to a report released by Palestinian Media Wat
Israeli officials are quietly throwing their support behind a United Arab Emirates proposal to install a former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as the head of a PA administration in post-war Gaza.
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began speaking to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, more than 5,000 protesters massed on the streets near Capitol Hill, waving Palestinian flags and chanting for United States to stop arming Israel.
The United Arab Emirates, through Operation "Chivalrous Knight 3", continued its campaign to provide relief aid and urgent shelter supplies to Palestinian families affected by the situation in the Nuseirat camp, including the provision of tents for the displaced.
Expressing his deep concern over the heartbreaking situation in Gaza, Egypt's Ambassador to India Wael Hamed, emphasized that the current state of conflict should not become the "new normal" for the Palestinian people.
The Israel Defence Forces added that in cooperation with international aid organizations, approximately 300,000 polio vaccines -- enough for more than one million Gaza residents -- have been brought to the Strip.
The UAE convoys of relief aid contained medical equipment, food parcels, Emirati dates, shelter tents, food supplies, clothes, water, baby formula, parcels for children and women, blankets, relief bags, ambulances, and water tanks and sewage systems.
Following the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) order which ruled that Israel's presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful, Israel asked the international court to clarify whether its published opinion is an "advisory opinion" and not "legally binding", and called it fundamentally wr