India's Call for Lasting Solution and Urgent Humanitarian Assistance in Gaza Amid Israel-Hamas War

During the BRICS summit on Gaza, India's foreign minister, S Jaishankar, called for a lasting solution to the conflict while blaming the recent Hamas attacks for the crisis. He emphasized the need for a 2-State solution based on peaceful coexistence and condemned civilian deaths, terrorism, and hostage-taking. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accused Israel of war crimes, while Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a ceasefire and an international peace conference, respectively. India abstained from a recent UNGA resolution on a humanitarian truce due to its failure to explicitly condemn Hamas attacks. The meeting ended without a joint statement.