Hyderabad, March 3 -- An Israeli television anchor has claimed on a live broadcast that Israel has taken "all of India" and its 1.4 billion people to manufacture weapons for the country, the remarks which have gone viral in India and raised questions about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Israel and just days after New Delhi and Tel Aviv had agreed to jointly produce weapons and were finalising a free trade agreement.

i24 News anchor Sharon Gal made the claim during a panel discussion when a fellow panellist remarked that Israel had no production line, meaning it lacked a domestic manufacturing base for weapons being used in the ongoing war.

Gal swiftly shot back: "We do! In India. We took all of India."

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