India`s name removed from the list of violence hit nations

Harinder Mishra
Jerusalem, Jun 3 (PTI) Terming it an "unintentional
mistake", Israel has dropped India's name from the list of
violence hit countries it said had been "ignored" by the
United Nations while the Jewish state was being condemned for
its "unmistakably defensive actions" last Monday that resulted
in the death of nine activists aboard Gaza aid flotilla.
"India was mentioned in the press release by mistake. It
was totally unintentional", Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman's media adviser Tzachi Moshe told PTI.
"The moment it came to our notice, the release was
corrected and reference to India was dropped", Moshe added.
In a surprising move, Israel, which has come under
intense international criticism for attacking an aid flotilla,
said that violent incidents in countries like India and
Pakistan in the past one month which claimed over 500 lives
have been "ignored" while it is being condemned for its
"unmistakably defensive actions".
Lieberman in a ministry release was quoted as "reminding"
the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that in the past month
alone over 500 people were killed in various incidents in
Thailand, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and India.
In an emergency session on Tuesday, the UN Security
Council called for an investigation into Israel's deadly
commando raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the Gaza
Strip on Monday, condemning the act that resulted in the loss
of at least nine lives. PTI