ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday the killing of 10 Palestinians the “latest act of Israeli terrorism.”
At least 10 people were killed, including a five-year-old girl, and 75 others wounded in an Israeli attack on Friday on the besieged enclave of Gaza, according to Palestine’s Health Ministry.
“Martyrdom of 10 Palestinians including 5-year-old girl in Gaza is latest act of Israeli terrorism,” the Pakistani PM said on Twitter. “If impunity & barbarism had a face, it would have been that of Israel, which has targeted Palestinians without any care for consequences.Pakistan strongly condemns Israeli airstrikes.”
Pakistan wants Israel to honor Palestinians’ hopes for a state of their own. Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of their future free state, a demand Pakistan has supported for decades.
In comments earlier this year, Pakistan’s new foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, said his country stands by Palestinians “at all difficult times” and condemned the murder by Israeli forces of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as a “crime.”
“There is consensus in Pakistan across the entire political spectrum when it comes to the Kashmiri and Palestinian peoples,” he told media.
