Kerala CM writes to EAM Jaishankar, seeks Centre's intervention to ensure safety of Indians in Israel
Hamas and Israel, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar seeking intervention to ensure the safety of Indian citizens in Israel.
«A good number of people around 7000 are from the state of Kerala. The continuing hostilities are putting these civilians to extreme hardship and their family members are in a state of extreme anxiety,» Vijayan said in the October 9 dated letter to the Union Minister Jaishankar.
«I request your good self to intervene in every possible manner to ensure the safety of our citizens in Israel,» the Kerala chief minister wrote.
A woman from Kerala working as a caregiver in Israel was injured in the conflict on Saturday.
On Monday, the CPI-M Kerala Secretariat in a statement had urged the central government to take steps to ensure the safety of the Keralites stuck in Israel.
«Such a situation is based on the widespread occupation of Israeli and Palestinian territories and the killing of Palestinian citizens. It is necessary to understand and solve such problems in a democratic manner.
There should be an intervention to create the conditions for that,» further stated the statement.
The CPI-M statement also stated that the UN Security Council resolution on a bilateral solution must be urgently implemented and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people must be protected. There should be efforts to ensure peace by ending the clashes that claim innocent lives, demanded the statement.
The Israel-Hamas war has meanwhile entered Day 4 with at least 900 Israelis reportedly been killed, and 700 deaths being recorded on the Palestine side.
