’I am shocked’: Former Israeli envoy reacts on Shashi Tharoor’s Hamas comment; Congress MP reacts

Amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor faced criticism for abstaining to label Hamas as a terror organisation. His comments about the militant group behind ghastly terror attack on Israel, drew flack from Israel's former ambassador to India Daniel Carmon.

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In one of his interviews, the Congress MP refrained from calling Hamas as a terrorist organisation and said that one must use the label of terrorist organisation very carefully. “ We must not follow other countries in such matters. The US consider Hamas as terrorist organisation, so does Israel. India has not made any such classification. And I am going to stick to the India's position,” said Shashi Tharoor in the interview.

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However, his comments didn't sink well with Israel's former ambassador to India Daniel Carmon. While sharing the clip of his interview on X, formerly Twitter, Daniel Carmon condemned Shashi Tharoor's statement on Hamas.

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“After decades of terror against my people,challenging the very Palestinian Authority,especially after this week’s savage slaughter of over a thousand peaceful human beings,can you not label Hamas as terrorists?Frankly,I am shocked,” he said on X.

‘Crude headlines seeking to distort my words,' says Shashi Tharoor

After Daniel Carmon  criticised Shashi Tharoor's comments on Hamas, former Under Secretary General to the UN, clarified his statement and said that he followed India's stand on recognition of Hamas group.

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“All I said was that India has not issued such a designation, though others have. Undoubtedly Hamas conducted terrorist acts, which I roundly condemned. Don’t be misled by crude headlines seeking to distort my words,@danielocarmon. I feel for you and other friends in Israel at this difficult time, and hope & pray for your continued safety,” he tweeted.

Earlier, Shashi Tharoor had termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comment on Israel-Hamas war as “incomplete”. While speaking on the issue, Tharoor said that he understands Prime Minister Narendra Modi's solidarity to the Jewish country but termed his statement as ‘incomplete’.

"While we understood the Prime Minister standing up for Israel showing solidarity at this time of great grief and this horror that has been visited upon them. At the same time, we felt that his statement was incomplete. Because I felt that, we needed to remember that there's a larger issue at stake here and a reason behind all of this, which is that there is a dehumanising occupation continuing in many places,” Shashi Tharoor told ANI.

He also highlighted how the people of Gaza are living in prison in the strip for a long time. The people of West Bank have been struggling for even fulfilling their normal freedom of movement and living in human conditions because of the construction of a wall which is interfering with their movement.