Gaza Hospital Raid: India Stresses Need To Avoid Civilian Casualties

India emphasised the need to avoid civilian casualties and to provide humanitarian aid to people caught up in the conflict in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces continued a raid of the region's main medical complex for the second day on Thursday.

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India initially condemned the October 7 terror attacks by Hamas and backed Israel's right to defend itself, and it has since sought to adopt a more nuanced approach by calling for the observance of international humanitarian law and the avoiding of civilian casualties. "The issue is not about one facility or a specific facility. India has always underlined the need for civilian casualties to be avoided, for humanitarian law to be observed, and to encourage any efforts to provide humanitarian relief to those caugh