UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza and West Bank so that massacre of innocent people could be stopped at the hands of Israel.
The Israeli killing machine must be stopped in Gaza and the West Bank, said Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Munir Akram at the 10th Emergency Special UNGA Session in New York on Friday.
He underscored the need to consider ways to prevent a recurrence of the killings.
He also called for giving serious consideration to the OIC Foreign Ministers’ proposal of deployment of a protection force to safeguard Palestinian civilians in the Gaza.
The ambassador said there is an urgent need for the flow of sufficient and sustained humanitarian assistance into Gaza to preserve lives and prevent further suffering of innocent Palestinians.
Urgent steps also needed to ensure that the Palestinian population of Gaza is not further displaced, within or outside Gaza.
He said the world is witnessing a human tragedy of epic proportions unfolding in front of our eyes.
The Palestinians are being bombed indiscriminately and without mercy or compunction. Their essential lifelines – water, food, fuel – have been cut off. Over a million have been internally displaced.
The ambassador said thirty-seven staff members of the UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) in Palestine have tragically lost their lives.
He said Pakistan strongly and unequivocally condemns Israeli air strikes and the systematic and barbaric crimes against the Palestinians.
These Israeli attacks on civilians, civilian objects and infrastructure, blockade of water, food and fuel, as well as the forced transfer of people from the occupied territory, are flagrant violations of international humanitarian law and amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Munir Akram called for reaffirming the right of Palestinian people under international law to struggle by all possible means, including armed struggle, to secure their freedom from foreign occupation and exercise their right to self-determination.
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