Days after PM's Israel visit, cabinet approves agreements with Palestine

Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel, the Union Cabinet chaired by him approved on Wednesday the signing of two agreements between India and Palestine on cooperation in the fields of health and medicine, and information technology and electronics. The two agreements were signed during Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s state visit to India in May.

Modi paid a state visit to Israel, the first by an Indian prime minister, from July 4 to 6. He, however, didn’t visit Palestine, a decision that has come in for criticism from opposition parties and former diplomats. In October 2015, President Pranab Mukherjee