KARACHI: Pakistan on Tuesday condemned Israel’s repeated ceasefire violations in Gaza and voiced alarm over a deepening humanitarian and food crisis in the war-battered territory, urging the immediate enforcement of a truce and unhindered aid flows.
Speaking at the 179th session of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Council in Rome, Pakistan’s food security minister Rana Tanveer Hussain said civilians in Gaza were facing acute deprivation, widespread displacement and collapsing essential services as hostilities continued.
He also praised FAO staff for operating under “life-threatening conditions” in the area.
“The situation has reached a critical point,” Hussain told the Council, according to a statement circulated by the national food security ministry.
Israel’s “repeated ceasefire violations” had aggravated the humanitarian emergency, he continued, adding the international community “cannot remain indifferent to the mounting human suffering and the rapidly worsening food insecurity in the besieged territory.”
