In replying to a question regarding Canada subsequent to their meeting in the nation’s capital, he stated that they deliberated on the diplomatic dispute. He stated that he conveyed India’s perspective regarding the tolerance of radicalism and extremism in Canada.

“From our point of view, the key issue is really the space which is being given to extremism and radicalism in Canada,” according to him.

Given Australia’s amicable relations with both India and China, he stated that “Australia must understand our position on the matter.”

Additionally, the regional partnership Quad, which Japan, India, the United States, and Australia formed to counter China’s increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific, was discussed by the two leaders.

“During our discussion today, Quad was at length discussed…We are engaged in the resolution of a wide array of concerns,” he explained.

In addition to commerce and investments, the meeting encompasses discussions on intelligence sharing pertaining to military and shipping operations.

Bloomberg reports that India and Australia have reached a mutual agreement to map the sea floor of the Indian Ocean, a region vital for submarine operations, and to establish formal protocols for air-to-air refueling.

Since September, when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India of complicity in the assassination of Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, relations between India and Canada have been tense.

New Delhi, in its denial of the “baseless” allegation, has requested Canada to provide evidence.

Australia and India supported a two-state resolution to the Israel-Palestine dispute.

In the interim, S. Jaishankar stated at a virtual meeting of BRICS leaders that the Palestinians’ concerns must be taken seriously.

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“In Gaza, the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas is a source of immense human suffering.” Humanitarian assistance is currently required to reach the population of Gaza immediately. Additionally, it is critical that every single captive be liberated. PM Modi has engaged in discussions with numerous leaders both regionally and globally regarding this matter. He has emphasized the necessity of resuming authentic and direct peace negotiations and establishing the conditions for peace. We hold the view that giving due consideration to the concerns of Palestinians is essential. “This is only possible through a two-state solution,” he continued.

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This comes after Israel sent more troops and tanks to Gaza and launched heavy air and sea attacks to support its ground operation. The defense minister of Israel said that “the ground shook in Gaza” and that the war had moved on to a new phase.

“We moved to the next stage of the war,” Yoav Gallant, Israel’s Defense Minister, said. “Last night, the ground shook in Gaza.” We hit both above and below ground. It’s clear what the forces should do. The effort will keep going until further notice.

According to the news agency AFP, a spokesman for Hamas said that the group wanted Israel to free all Palestinian inmates in exchange for hostages.

Palestinians have lost just over 7,700 lives in Gaza since October 7. Since late Friday, 377 more people have died. Gaza’s health ministry said that most of the people who were killed were women and children. Spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra told reporters that the health network has been “totally paralyzed” because of the problems with communication.

Volker Turk, who is in charge of human rights at the UN, said that “thousands more civilians” could die because of “the possibly catastrophic consequences of large-scale ground operations in Gaza.”

According to Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defense, “hundreds of buildings and houses were completely destroyed and thousands of other homes were damaged” in the overnight attacks.

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His words to AFP were, “If it had been a natural earthquake, it would have been much easier than what happened last night.” He also said, “What happened last night was more like a horror movie.” People on the streets have turned into dead bodies that walk.

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Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal is seen here during the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal is seen here during the Israel-Hamas conflict.
“I do not support the use of force in the Palestinian territories. I prefer the alternative strategy, which involves civic disobedience and uprising. The British empire in India and the Soviet empire in eastern Europe were both brought to their knees as a result of it, he claimed. It is generally agreed upon that the prince’s address, which was unusually candid for a senior member of the Saudi royal family, was the clearest indicator yet of how the Saudi Arabian leadership is currently processing the situation.

What Turki Al Faisal said on Hamas?

According to him, the actions of Hamas violated Islamic injunctions that state it is forbidden to cause harm to civilians. This ex-diplomat and former head of Israeli intelligence also accused Israel of “indiscriminate bombing of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza” and “indiscriminate arrest of Palestinian children, women, and men in the West Bank.” Both of these accusations were made in reference to the Gaza Strip.

What the Saudi Arabia prince said on US and the country’s media?

He took exception to the word “unprovoked attack” that was used by the media in the United States and stated, “What more provocation is required.. than what Israel has done to the Palestinian people for three-quarters of a century?”

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“All militarily occupied people have the right to resist occupation,” he added, blaming Western politicians for “shedding tears when Israelis are killed by Palestinians,” but refusing to “even express sorrow when Israelis kill Palestinians.” He was referring to the situation in which Palestinians were responsible for the deaths of Israelis.

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Benjamin Netanyahu called a meeting of Israel’s expanded emergency cabinet as a show of unity, and then the Israeli military prepared to go into the Gaza Strip to hunt out Hamas, whose deadly assault across Israeli border communities startled the world. “Hamas was under the impression that we would be destroyed. He stated that those listening to him would be the ones to bring down Hamas.

“The responsibility for the possible opening of new fronts of resistance in the region and any escalation of today’s war directly falls on the United States and the Zionist regime (Israel),” Hossein Amirabdollahian said after he met Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar. During their meeting, the two men discussed the group’s deadly attack in Israel “and agreed to continue cooperation” to achieve the group’s goals.

Earlier, in a phone chat with his counterpart in France, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi urged France to assist in “preventing oppression” of Palestinians. He was speaking with Emmanuel Macron.

According to a comment attributed to Ebrahim Raisi, who was speaking in reference to Israel, “The situation will become more complicated… if the crimes committed by the Zionist regime, including the killing of people and the blockade of Gaza, are not stopped.”

This comes at a time when approximately 2.3 million inhabitants in Gaza confront a growing struggle for food, water, and safety as they prepare for an oncoming assault. Israel has issued orders for residents of roughly the northern half of the territory to evacuate, prompting hundreds of thousands of people to comply with those orders.

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The Israeli military has stated that it will not target a particular route south for the next several hours, and has once again urged Palestinians to leave the northern areas in large groups. The day before, the military also provided two passageways in addition to a lengthier window of opportunity.

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He stated, as reported by the news agency Reuters, that this did not justify mobilization.

The comments were made after the Israeli military issued orders for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of residents residing in Gaza City in preparation for a possible ground attack by Israel. Following reports from the United Nations that it had been given a warning to evacuate 1.1 million people residing in northern Gaza, the Israeli government issued the command.

According to the head of the United Nations’ humanitarian relief operation, Martin Griffiths, the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which was previously dire, is now “quickly becoming untenable.”

Martin Griffiths stated that the acts and rhetoric of Hamas terrorists and Israel over the past several days are “extremely alarming, unacceptable,” and added that civilians and civilian infrastructure need to be protected.

Following the publication of a report that suggested Hamas may have plotted their deadly strike in Israel more than a year in advance, this news came to light. Sky News reported citing documents that were believed to have been found on the bodies of combatants in the conflict zone. These documents were reportedly labeled with the phrase “Top Secret.” According to the information presented in the study, the fact that the month of October 2022 was printed on the front cover of the collection of documents suggests that preparations for the assaults were completed at least one year in advance.

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It is alleged that Israeli soldiers and emergency responders discovered the documents, which were written in Arabic. According to the article, “They suggest Hamas militants planned to target civilian populations and take hostages,” the report claimed, adding, “The plan, however, was not successful with militants reportedly pushed back by local security – and it’s believed that nobody was killed inside the kibbutz.”

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On October 7, Hamas attacked Israel in a big way, killing 1,300 people. In response, Israel dropped bombs on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 2,215 people, in preparation for a possible ground invasion of the area.

“Saudi Arabia has decided to stop talking about possible normalization and has told US officials,” an AFP source who was familiar with the talks said.

The source talked on the same day that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Prince Faisal bin Farhan of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. This was the last stop on Blinken’s six-nation tour of the area.

After the meeting, the Saudi foreign ministry asked for “an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and its surroundings” and for aid to be sent right away to those in need.

The Gulf kingdom is home to some of the holiest sites in Islam, but it has never recognized Israel. It also did not sign the Abraham Accords, which were brokered by the US and led to official ties between Israel and its Gulf neighbors, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Morocco.

In the past few months, US President Joe Biden’s government has been putting a lot of pressure on Saudi Arabia to do the same thing.

‘No way’ to normalise

As de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, son of the ailing King Salman, set the terms for normalization. These included security promises from Washington and help with building a civilian nuclear program.

Last month, Prince Mohammed told Fox News that “every day we get closer” to a deal. He also said that the Palestinian problem was “very important” for Riyadh.

“That part needs to be fixed. “We need to make things easier for the Palestinians,” he said.

Many experts didn’t think the deal would work, even before the war started.

“Normalisation between the kingdom and Israel is an American initiative and project that the kingdom has welcomed in case the US could deliver an agreement addressing the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians — one that the Palestinians would accept,” stated Saudi expert Hesham Alghannam.

“In reality, Israel was not really ready to reach an agreement with the Palestinians that would give them the minimum of their needs.”

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The head of the International Crisis Group’s Middle East office, Joost Hiltermann, said, “After seeing what’s happening in Gaza, there is no way that any Arab country can seriously talk to Israel about normalizing relations.”

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It was too late for Palestinians to safely escape to the south and for a hospital in Gaza City to be evacuated. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that Israeli forces gave them an order earlier today telling them they had to leave their Al Quds hospital. The original start time was 6 a.m. today, but it was later pushed back because the hospital could not be safely removed and had to keep caring for the sick and hurt, the statement said.

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As of this morning, the Israeli military had closed a window for “safe passage.” During that time, Palestinians could travel along two key routes from northern Gaza without being hurt from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. local time.

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“Operation Ajay is being initiated to facilitate the repatriation of American citizens who desire to return from Israel. In the process of making special charter flights and other arrangements. “Entirely dedicated to ensuring the security and welfare of our citizens while they are travelling abroad,” stated S Jaishankar, minister of external affairs, on the social media platform X.

The Indian embassy in Tel Aviv announced on X that the initial batch of registered Indian citizens for tomorrow’s special flight has been emailed. “Messages regarding subsequent flights will be sent to other registered passengers,” the embassy added.

The ministry of external affairs declared earlier in the day that a 24-hour control center has been established to monitor the situation in Israel and deliver aid and information. Additionally, Indian nationals have been provided with helpline numbers by the Indian embassy.

A minimum of 2,200 individuals have lost their lives as the Israel-Hamas conflict enters its fifth day. A prominent opposition leader and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed an emergency wartime cabinet to oversee the struggle against Hamas.

An escalating barrage of destruction by Israel against Gaza has resulted in the destruction of entire city blocks and the burying of undetermined numbers of corpses beneath debris mounds. On Wednesday, militants in Gaza maintained their barrage of missiles towards Israel, with particular intensity directed at the southern city of Ashkelon.

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India has previously demonstrated its solidarity with Israel in its conflict against Hamas, the governing party of the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Israeli counterpart Netanyahu discussed the current situation in the Jewish state via telephone on Tuesday. “I appreciate the phone call from Prime Minister @netanyahu, during which he provided an update on the current situation. The Indian people are resolutely united with Israel during this challenging period. “Terrorism in all its forms and manifestations is condemned unequivocally and vehemently by India,” Modi wrote on the social media platform X.

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Tuesday, El Al, Israir, and Arkia increased the number of flights they operate in an effort to return reservists to Israel, as reported by their websites and the airports authority in Israel.

Israel has a system of reserve forces known as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Reserves. In Israel, military service is compulsory for most citizens, with men serving for two and a half years and women for two years, starting at the age of 18. After completing their mandatory service, individuals typically become part of the IDF Reserves, which means they can be called back to active duty in times of need.

All you need to know about Israel’s reserve army:

Eligibility:The majority of Israeli citizens meet the eligibility requirements to enlist in the reserve army. This includes both male and female individuals who have fulfilled their obligatory military obligations. Particular groups or individuals occupying specialized positions or suffering from specific medical conditions may be subject to restrictions on their reserve service.

Call-up:Active duty may be required of reservists in the event of war, conflict, or other national emergencies. Generally, the IDF ensures that reservists are well-prepared and maintain their proficiency through periodic training exercises.

Age Limits:While the minimum age requirement for reserve duty may differ, in practice, reservists may be mobilized until the age of 50 or 40, contingent upon the nature of their assignment and particular situations.

Commitment:Reserve duty can exhibit variability with regard to both the frequency and duration of service. While some reservists may be on-call for a duration of several weeks annually, others may remain so for extended periods.

Training: Reservists are obligated to engage in remedial training exercises in order to maintain their proficiency and knowledge of the most recent military strategies and equipment.

Specialized Units:Certain reservists are assigned to specialized divisions, including special forces, the intelligence corps, or other positions that require extensive training and expertise. These organizations might have distinct training and requirements.

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Benefits: In Israel, reservists are remunerated for their service, which may constitute a substantial portion of their earnings while on reserve duty. In addition, they are entitled to healthcare and various other benefits.

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“I think many people would agree with me that it’s a clear example of the failure of US politics in the Middle East,” he stated.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier that Moscow has been in touch with both Israel and the Palestinians to help find a solution. He said this when he was asked about a claim by the Palestinian ambassador to Moscow that Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinians, would soon be visiting Moscow. Dmitry Peskov said that the visit was planned before the war and that Moscow will make the date public as soon as it is set.

Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, said that making a Palestinian state was the “most reliable” way to bring peace to Israel because fighting terrorists alone would not keep people safe. Sergei Lavrov said that the best way to end the war is to make a “Palestinian state that would live side by side with Israel.”

He said, “We cannot agree with those who say that war on terrorism is the only way to ensure security.” He also said that Moscow was “deeply concerned that hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians have died and that the Gaza Sector has been declared a target for Israeli retaliation.”

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Sergei Lavrov said that Russia had “serious questions” about the way the West spoke about Israel because “they say that fighting should stop right away and Israel should destroy the terrorists.” But they have done this before, and once things calmed down, they never realized that the main cause of the dispute needs to be taken care of. The Palestinian issue shouldn’t be put off any longer.

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