By IRNA,
New Delhi : India should stop all military and security collaboration with Israel, said the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M), Sunday in New Delhi.
Expressing its strong condemnation and outrage at the attack by Israeli armed forces on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza, the party politburo in a statement here said: “It is highly regrettable that the UPA government has not even condemned Israel by name for this attack in the statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs and confines itself to regretting the loss of lives and the use of force”.
The Polit Bureau demands that the Government of India work actively with other countries to get the blockade of Gaza lifted. The party reiterates that India should stop all military and security collaboration with Israel as long as it remains in illegal occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories.
Fifteen people were killed and many others injured in the brutal attack on international waters. Israel behaves like a rogue State in enforcing the blockade of Gaza, said the statement.
Meanwhile, CPI-M has directed its local committees across Kerala to stage protest marches Sunday and Monday against Israel’s attacks on the peace ships to Gaza in Palestine.
The peace ships proceeded to Palestine to ease the hardships of Gaza residents caused by Israel’s blockade, a statement from the state secretariat of the party said.
It said the Centre had not even protested against the “heinous” action of Israel, which was part of their efforts to become a “junior partner” of the US.
The secretariat requested all human rights activists to come together “against the American-Israel tie-up to destroy the Palestinian people.