LONDON: Pakistan’s prime minister on Friday warned the world that it risks failing the children of Gaza, and called for a ceasefire in the war-torn Palestinian enclave.
In his address to the UN General Assembly, Shehbaz Sharif said Israel is inflicting “unspeakable terror” on Palestinian civilians, accusing it of a “genocidal” campaign.
“The smallest coffins are the heaviest to carry,” he said. “Therefore, we cannot, and we must not fail these children of Gaza, or any child anywhere in the world. We must find a path to a ceasefire now.”
He called for the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state free from the “shackles” of Israel, and condemned the ongoing violence of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.
“Pakistan firmly supports the demand of the Palestinian people for the establishment of a sovereign Palestine state with pre-1967 borders and Al-Quds Al-Sharif (Jerusalem) as its capital. Palestine can no longer remain under Israeli shackles. It must be liberated,” he said.
