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KOCHI: Former chief of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, virtually addressed a pro-Palestine rally held in Malappuram district of Kerala on Friday.The "Youth Resistance Rally" with a tagline of "Uproot Bulldozer Hindutwa and Apartheid Zionism" was organised by Solidarity Movement, an organisation under the state unit of Jamaate Islami Hind.The visuals of the rally held in Malappuram town shows that Meshaal...

NEW DELHI: Growing concerns exist among Israelis and some Palestinians regarding a contentious law designed to provide compensation to the families of Palestinians involved in "nationalistic attacks" against Israelis, according to a Fox News report.Under this law, the Palestinian Authority may be obligated to allocate nearly $3 million each month to the families of hundreds of individuals associated...

NEW DELHI: An Indian-origin doctor working at a hospital in Bahrain lost his job for posting inflammatory comments on social media targeting Palestinians.Dr. Sunil Rao posted a series of tweets expressing support for Israel during its conflict with Hamas. His tweets were flagged by a user on X (formerly Twitter), prompting Bahraini authorities to take notice.Calling his tweets 'offensive to our...

NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Thursday said that the first charter flight will be reaching Tel Aviv later tonight to pick up Indians and is likely to return to India tomorrow morning.The MEA in a briefing said that Operation Ajay has been launched to bring back Indians from Israel adding that it hasn’t heard of any Indian casualty so far."A charter flight will reach Tel Aviv today...

TEL AVIV: Amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, the Indian diaspora in Israel has expressed confidence in the country's military and said they want to live peacefully.A woman of Indian origin in Ashkelon, Israel, Ilana Nagaukar, told: "Yesterday, a missile struck here, vehicles caught fire and there was a power cut in all these buildings. We feel that we are in danger but we believe in our...

JERUSALEM: Fearing for their life amid continuous bombardments by Israel, an Indian woman living in Gaza with her family on Tuesday sought an immediate evacuation from the war-torn Hamas-ruled enclave. "We are facing a brutal war here and everything is being destroyed in bombarded in a matter of seconds. We are paying the price of this conflict as civilians are being targeted," Lubna Nazir Shaboo, an...

CHENNAI: Vijayakumar, 64, and his wife Usha Devi, 59, are in a rare mix of relief and tension. Relief because they are with their daughter; tension because they find themselves in a war zone. The couple from Thiruvananthapuram had travelled to Israel last month to spend time with their daughter Anagha, who is pursuing her PhD at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv and are now stuck in raging war after...

NEW DELHI: Israeli soldiers engaged in combat with Hamas militants a day after an unprecedented surprise attack by Hamas forces that broke out of the blockaded Gaza Strip and invaded nearby Israeli communities. On Sunday, Israel responded with airstrikes that leveled buildings in Gaza, with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring that the country was at war.Hamas militants had launched a...

NEW DELHI: Dozens of Hamas militants on Saturday barged into Israeli cities and went on a slaughtering spree in an unprecedented escalation of the years-long conflict.At least 100 Israelis have been killed and over 500 injured in the multi-front assault that began on Saturday morning. Live updates: Israel-Palestine conflictIsraeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Israelis living in the south are...