Panelists: Cmdre C. Uday Bhaskar, leading expert security and strategic affairs and Director, Society for Policy Studies; Amb. Navtej Singh Sarna, former Indian Ambassador to Israel; and Ms Sagari Chhabra, multiple award-winning author & filmmaker,playwright, poet and Director, Hamaara Itihas Archives

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University, Pune and Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi

The grim toll of the war that started on 7 October 2023, has crossed 10,600 as on 4 November 2023. Women and children account for more than two-thirds of the dead in Gaza. Deprived of potable water, food, medicines, and other essentials, with hospitals, schools, and places of worship getting bombed, the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza need urgent help that can be given only if Israel stops bombing. The panel will holistically examine this complex issue – what is India’s policy and what are the implications thereof? Is there any way the state of war between Israel and the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories can be replaced by an agreed peace?