Rajya Sabha takes debate on Gaza conflict

A short discussion on conflict between Israel and Palestine is on in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.

The House was disrupted several times last week on the same issue with government refusing opposition demand to debate. Earlier, today The Rajya Sabha faced disruption over the reported claim of former SC judge and press council chairman justice Markandey Katju that the previous UPA government gave an extension to a reportedly corrupt judge in the Madras High court under the pressure of an influential Tamil Nadu political party  Four Indian tailors evacuated from Gaza Meanwhile, four Indian tailors working in Gaza for the last two years have been evacuated unharmed with the help of the Representative Office of India (ROI) in Ramallah, a top UN official said.  The four, Abdur Rehman from Lucknow, Anwar Hussein belonging to Mumbai, Kamil hailing from Badam Ganj and Rashid Ahmed of Bareilly were working for a Palestinian businessman.  They left the strip yesterday, one of the bloodiest day in the 13 days of conflict that saw 97 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers dead in one of the fiercest attack launched by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) in recent years.