"The Palestinian Authority was 'shocked' at India's abstention on an anti-Israel resolution passed at the UN Human Right's Council, the PA's ambassador to India said Tuesday...
'We were shocked,' Adnan Abu Alhaija told The Hindu newspaper.
'The Palestinian people and the leaders, we were very happy with the UN resolution, but the voting of India has broken our happiness...'
Israel hailed India's abstention, which was viewed in Jerusalem as 'dramatic' and a sign of the very strong relations between the two countries, especially since the election last year of Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
[I]t was the second time in less than two months that India abstained on an Israel-related vote rather than voting against it.
The first time was last month, when India, along with two other countries, abstained in a vote on whether to grant observer status to a British based NGO – the Palestinian Return Center – which Israel said was linked to Hamas. Twelve other countries voted in favor of the resolution, which passed, but India's abstention then was a first..."