New York: Pakistan has told in a United Nations meeting that an urgent truce was critical to meet immense needs in the besieged Gaza, and asked Israel to halt its current “genocide” of Palestinian people, local media reported on Saturday.
This was stated by Pakistan’s permanent envoy to the UN, Ambassador Munir Akram during a briefing on the current ‘Humanitarian Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’.
War on Gaza: ‘Halt Genocide’ of Palestinians’ Pakistan Asks Israel
According to APP, the Ambassador said, “We cannot mince our words; we have to tell Israel: halt the genocide,”. UN Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Griffiths and Lynn Hastings, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process also briefed the member nations regarding the recent developments in the Israeli-Palestinian war. They also called for an immediate humanitarian truce to ensure safe delivery of fuel, food, and other essential items.
According to APP, in his speech, Ambassador Munir Akram said that the Israelis, having suffered the Holocaust, were now carrying out the “modern genocide” against Palestinian people, and “we must call it for what it is”. In this connection, the Ambassador called for respecting and adhering to the global humanitarian law that forbids strikes on civilian populations.
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He said that the deadly Israeli airstrikes against hospitals, schools, and civilian infrastructure in Gaza on the pretext that there were military targets in those facilities were a grave violation of global law and norms as well as a “collective punishment” of a helpless civilian population.
On the occasion, the Pakistani Ambassador also countered Canada’s call for the release of Israeli hostages, but not the thousands of Palestinian people arbitrarily apprehended and kept in Israeli jails, saying, “Talk about that, too.”
Over 1.5 million people are now displaced and about 600,000 are crowded in shelters run by the UN that helps Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which has lost about 72 officials.
