Palestine issue not a Muslim-Jew conflict, but a humanitarian crisis: Ambassador

The Palestine contented is not a struggle betwixt Muslims and Jews, arsenic Zionists person agelong attempted to portray, but alternatively a humanitarian situation and a substance of planetary law, Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh, Ambassador of Palestine to India, has said.

Addressing the ‘Gaza Solidarity Conference’ organised by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) successful Kochi connected Thursday (September 25, 2025), wherever helium was the main guest, Mr. Shawesh emphasised that the contented is not astir Christianity, Judaism, oregon Islam, but astir the concern of Palestinian onshore by Zionists. He mentioned that the archetypal authorities formed by the precocious Yasser Arafat included a Jewish minister.

Recalling that India was among the archetypal nations to recognise the State of Palestine and that leaders similar Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru consistently supported the Palestinian cause, Mr. Shawesh added that India’s solidarity with Palestine stems from a shared history.

He stressed that each idiosyncratic has the imaginable to beryllium a game-changer and play a captious relation successful advancing the Palestinian cause. “Our communicative is present known crossed the globe acknowledgment to societal media, which continues to beryllium a almighty tool. Do not halt sharing and posting astir our conflict and the suffering of our women,” Mr. Shawesh urged.

“We, the Palestinian people, tin ne'er beryllium accused of terrorism, though Zionists ever effort to statement america arsenic such,” helium said. Drawing from idiosyncratic experience, Mr. Shawesh, who was calved and raised successful a exile campy successful Gaza, said helium understood the suffering and its basal cause, which is the Israeli concern and taste cleansing.

While inaugurating the meet, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) State president Syed Sadikali Shihab Thangal lamented that the children of Gaza were being starved and denied a due childhood. He condemned the genocide successful Gaza, stating that it violates the Geneva Conventions connected humanitarian attraction during equipped struggle by targeting civilians, including women and children. Mr. Thangal besides criticised the existent Indian authorities for abandoning the Palestinian cause, which was erstwhile a nationalist slogan intimately linked to India’s state movement.

IUML nationalist caput P.K. Kunhalikutty presided. Senior writer and writer Venkitesh Ramakrishnan delivered the keynote address.