“For Greater Global Goods”: PM Modi Denounces Civilians Death In Israel-Hamas Conflict (Image:pmindia.gov.in)
“India condemns the October 7 terrorist attack”, said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, while speaking in the inaugural session of the second Voice of Global South Summit. The PM addressed the summit virtually and upheld the platform as a unique event that reflected the changing world in the twenty first century. He also called the nations attending the two-day summit for a “greater global good”, considering the emerging tensions in the West Asian region as part of the ongoing Israel-Palestine war.
The Prime Minister said that India has condemned the October 7 “terrorist attack” on Israel. During the meeting, he also laid emphasis on exercising restraint and on dialogue and diplomacy. He added that New Delhi strongly condemns the civilian deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
According to the Prime Minister, he already exchanged talks with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and provided humanitarian aid to the people of Palestine. Mr Modi urged that the countries of global south should speak univocally for greater global goods. “For one earth, one family, one future”. He also suggested five “C’s” – consultation, cooperation, complication, creativity, and compatibility.
The Voice of Global South Summit (VOGSS) focus on sharing with countries of the Global South the key outcomes achieved in various G20 meetings over the course of India’s Presidency. Through his address, Mr Modi acknowledged that the Global South had been able to find its voice after the concerted efforts of all Global South nations. As said by him, even though the union encapsulates over hundred nations in total, all of the countries constitute similar concerns.
The West Asia had condensed of severe human-economic-political-environmental conflict, caused out of the war between Israel and Palestine. It’s been two months since the broke out, after Hamas led an unprecedented attack on an Israeli desert music camp, killed more than thousand and took hundreds captive as hostages. Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist political and military organisation governing the Gaza Strip of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
In the counterattack initiated by Israel defence forces with the help of American artilleries and vocal support of its Western allies, at least 11,470 Palestinians were killed in two months, and among them almost half are women and children. The Strip is witnessing the worst period of humanitarian catastrophe and a lack of fuel had hit the Gaza leading the shutdown of all internet and phone networks on Thursday, said the major Palestinian telecom provider. The besieged territory is thus effectively cut off from the outside world, where thousands were already headed to south, observing Israel’s evacuation order from the North.
