ISLAMABAD: Pakistan told the United Nations on Wednesday Israel is burying the two-state solution by expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, while facing no real consequences to prevent the killing of civilians with impunity in Gaza.
Addressing a UN Security Council briefing on the Middle East, Pakistan’s ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said Israel’s military campaign and declared plan to fully occupy Gaza City would lead to further humanitarian catastrophe.
Gaza has been under Israeli assault for 691 consecutive days, with more than 62,000 Palestinians killed, including nearly 19,000 children and at least 270 journalists, according to figures cited by the envoy.
“Pakistan condemns Israel’s so-called ‘military operation’ and planned full occupation of Gaza City – which is nothing but a blueprint for further humanitarian catastrophe, threatening to displace once more up to one million people,” Ahmad said.
“Simultaneously, annexation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem continues unabated,” he added. “The E-1 settlement plan is a deliberate attempt to bury the two-State solution. We strongly condemn this action, which constitutes a clear violation of international law, including Security Council resolutions.”
