New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- Expressing strong dismay over Palestine not being invited to US President Donald Trump's proposed Board of Peace, Palestine's Ambassador to India, Abdullah Abu Shawesh, on Thursday described the move as a "misery" and a "black comedy."

Responding to a question by ANI on the exclusion of Palestinian leadership from the initiative, Abu Shawesh contrasted the absence of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with the reported inclusion of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"The misery, the irony of the issue, the black comedy here, when the fugitive from justice - the Israeli Prime Minister, the one who is wanted to the International Criminal Court is being invited to be member of the Board of Peace, the one who ...