India and Israel meet to deepen military ties in sign of solidarity amid Gaza atrocities

India and Israeli military officials have pledged to deepen and strengthen military ties even as images of Israel's engineered starvation of Palestinians continue to send shockwaves around the world. 

More than 59,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israel’s war on Gaza, which several countries, as well as many international rights groups and experts, now qualify as an act of genocide.

More than 115 Palestinians, including 80 children, are estimated to have died from starvation in the past month, including 15 who died of malnutrition on Monday.

Earlier this week, more than two dozen countries, including France and the UK, condemned "the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food”, further calling for Israel's war on Gaza to end.

But as global condemnation and calls for an arms embargo on Israel mounted this week, on Wednesday, India's defence secretary and the director general of Israel's Ministry of Defence met in New Delhi and "agreed to further strengthen bilateral defence cooperation with a long-term perspective". 

The meeting between Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh and the Israel's deputy chief of staff, Major General Amir Baram, signalled, once more, Delhi's intention to remain committed to supporting Israel diplomatically and economically even as Israel loses the support of some of its staunchest allies.

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