Adnan Abu Alhaija, Palestine’s Ambassador to India, has expressed hope that the “humanitarian truce” between Hamas and Israel, which ends on November 29, could be extended to a few more days to help establish peace in the region.
Mr. Alhaija was here on Wednesday to attend a function at which an award in memory of former IUML State president Panakkad Syed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal was presented to writer C. Radhakrishnan. IUML State president Panakkad Syed Sadikali Shihab Thangal presented the award. The Ambassador also called for India’s support to play a mediator’s role between Palestine and Israel to establish the State of Palestine and the land of 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital.
“Hope we won’t go back to a war again. Hope we will manage to extend the humanitarian truce, leading later to a ceasefire. The international community should not forget that peace process should be there, and a state of Palestine should exist as soon possible. If you leave it to this extreme government [in Israel], it will never think of giving any right to the Palestinians. Our struggle will continue,” he told the media.
