'India supports a two-state solution to resolve Israel-Palestine conflict'

India favours a two-state solution to end the decadeslong Israel-Palestine conflict, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar said on Tuesday as the war in Gaza, ignited by Hamas attacks inside the Jewish state in early October, shows no signs of ending.

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He said the conflict in West Asia must be viewed in its totality and termed the Hamas' deadly incursions inside Israel. nearly four months ago a terrorist attack.

Replying to a question at an interaction with students of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Mumbai, Jaishankar said:

"It is certainly the view of India, and a very large number of countries that (the problem can be) only be done (resolved) through a two-state solution, that there has to be a Palestinian state side-by-side with the state of Israel.

So for us today, there are all the aspects. We cannot take one aspect and say that's the only aspect because if you see the debate in the world in a way that is what people are doing."