ISLAMABAD: Pakistan condemned Israel’s ongoing military offensive against the Palestinians and called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) heads of state meeting in China this week, the Pakistani foreign office said on Friday, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reaffirming his support for the next phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Israeli troops have lately been operating in parts of Gaza City as they plan to take over all of the most populous Palestinian city that is home to around a million people many of whom have already been displaced multiple times.
On Thursday, Israeli strikes killed 28 people as the death toll from Israel’s two-year war rose to 64,000, according to Palestinian health officials. Last month, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system said Gaza City was officially in famine, with around 514,000 people experiencing it.
Pakistan, which does not have diplomatic relations with Israel, has consistently condemned Israel’s war on Gaza, called for an uninterrupted flow of humanitarian aid into Palestinian territory and the establishment of an independent, sovereign and contiguous
Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
