India's UNGA vote highlights stance on Palestine resolution amid Hamas controversy
Hamas for its terrorist attack and the Assembly rejected an amendment supported by New Delhi that would have named the terror group.
During this special session, the UNGA adopted a new resolution, calling for an «immediate, durable, and sustained humanitarian truce» between the Israeli troops and the Hamas militants in Gaza. The newly adopted resolution which was initially moved ahead by Jordan, it did not contain any explicit condemnation of the terrorist attacks on 7th October but an amendment was introduced to include this condemnation before the main Resolution's vote.
India abstained from voting for the non-binding Jordanian resolution but voted in favor of a Canada-led amendment to the draft resolution on the Gaza crisis, which unfortunately didn't achieve the required two-thirds majority for passage, ANI reported.
India's Deputy Permanent Representative Yojna Patel said after the vote, «The terror attacks in Israel on October 7 were shocking and deserve condemnation.»
«The world should not buy into any justification of terror acts. Let us keep aside differences, unite and adopt a zero tolerance approach to terrorists,» she added.
The resolution that called for a truce in the Israel-Hamas conflict and provision of assistance to the people of Gaza passed with 120 votes while there were 14 votes against it and 45 abstentions, giving it a two-thirds majority of those present and voting.
India backed the amendment to the resolution moved by Canada that named Hamas and condemned its 7/10 attack, but it failed to pass, getting only 88 votes, while there were 54 votes against it, with 23 abstentions.
Patel said, «Terrorism is a malignancy and knows no borders, nationality or race.»
India's vote on the Resolution
