ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday said the “genocide” of the Palestinians in Gaza was unacceptable as it reiterated a call for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on the besieged territory, amid continuous Israeli strikes from the land, air and sea.
The Palestinian death toll from Israeli strikes has surpassed 10,000, the Gaza health ministry said on Monday. About 1,400 people in Israel have died since the October 7 incursion by Hamas that started the war.
On Tuesday, Pakistan’s Foreign Office stressed the urgency of a ceasefire in Gaza to prevent further civilian deaths.
“With 10,000 Palestinian dead and counting, we underline the urgency of bringing an end to the carnage in #Gaza and call for ceasefire,” it said in a statement on X.
“Genocide is unacceptable in any day and age.”
The war has become the deadliest Israeli-Palestinian violence since Israel’s establishment 75 years ago, with no end in sight as Israel vows to remove Hamas from power and crush its military capabilities.
Casualties are likely to rise sharply as the war turns to close urban combat.
Pakistan does not recognize the state of Israel and calls for an independent Palestinian state based on “internationally agreed parameters” and the pre-1967 borders with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
The South Asian country has been calling for a cessation of hostilities in Gaza since the beginning of the war.
On Monday, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Munir Akram, said Israel had been emboldened by the international order’s “double and triple standards,” which he considered to be the “root” of the crisis unfolding in the Middle East.
Akram urged the world to rectify the imbalance at the heart of the UN and in the application of international law.
