Shashi Tharoor, MP and Congress Working Committee member, has alleged that Israel’s response to the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7 is “disproportionate” as more number of Palestinian people have been killed in the past 19 days when compared with those who lost their lives in skirmishes in the region since 2008.
He was delivering a keynote address at an event organised by the Indian Union Muslim League on the Kozhikode beach on Thursday to express solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Mr. Tharoor said, quoting the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, that as many as 6,407 Palestinians and 300 Israelis died in the clashes in the region between 2008 and September this year. The number of those who died since October 7, however, was much more.
