"It's time to add Hamas to India's terror list": Israel envoy Naor Gilon after pro-Palestine protest in Kerala
Hamas chief Khaled Mashal at a pro-Palestine rally in Kerala, Israel's ambassador to India Naor Gilon said it was time to add Hamas to India's terror list.
«Unbelievable! #HamasTerrorist Khaled Mashal speaks from Qatar in a #Kerala event under the slogan 'Uproot bulldozer Hindutva & Apartheid Zionism',» the Israeli envoy posted from his official handle on 'X'.
«Mashal calls participants to: Take the streets and show anger, prepare for jihad (on Israel), support Hamas financially, promote Palestinian narrative on social media, it's time to add #HamasISIS also to #India's terror list,» he posted further.
Mashal virtually addressed the event, which was organised by Solidarity Youth Movement, the youth wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami in Kerala.
The former Hamas chief addressed the gathering in Arabic.
Responding to the pro-Palestine protest and Mashal's virtual address, the BJP's vice president in Kerala, VT Rema, said a «group of Islamic terrorists» laid bare «their real mindset» in a secular India.
«I was shocked to learn of this protest. It was deplorable and extremely unfortunate that a group of Islamic terrorists, inhabiting a secular country, and our southernmost state Kerala, laid bare their real mindset so blatantly.
Everyone knows how Hamas launched unprecedented attacks on Israel and took scores of innocent civilian lives,» Rema told ANI.
Coming down heavily on the LDF government in Kerala, the BJP's state president K Surendran said such events were unacceptable.
«Hamas leader Khaled Mashel's virtual address at the Solidarity event in Malappuram is alarming. Where's Pinarayi Vijayan's Kerala Police? Under the guise of 'Save Palestine,' they're glorifying Hamas, a terrorist organization, and its leaders as
