General Syed Asim Munir Chief of Pakistan’s Army Staff met the Ambassador of Palestine to Pakistan Ahmad Jawad Rabei at General Headquarters on Tuesday.
Gen. Munir expressed condolences on the loss of Palestinian lives in the ongoing war in Gaza and expressed grave concern over the unabated violence and willful indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians by the Israeli Defense Forces in the war. “Incessant attacks on civilian population schools universities aid workers hospitals and the forced exodus of Palestinians from Gaza are manifest crimes against humanity” he added.
The Chief of Staff reiterated the call for immediate cessation of hostilities opening of humanitarian corridor to Gaza protection of civilians and adherence to the International Humanitarian Law.
He also reiterated Pakistan’s principled support for an independent viable and contiguous state of Palestine established on the basis of pre-1967 borders with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
“Pakistan believes that the fresh spate of violence in Gaza is the result of unabated repression continued human rights violations and state-sponsored sacrilege of Al Aqsa Mosque. Conflating this war with terrorism would be naïve; taking a narrow and self-serving view of the issue as an isolated attack obscures brutal oppression spanning decades that has led to this outcome” Gen. Munir remarked.
He further said “At this critical juncture it is imperative that the international community mobilizes to put an early end to the unfolding human tragedy due to disproportionate and unlawful use of force by Israeli Defense Forces and desist from encouraging them to continue perpetrating atrocities in manifest violation of all norms of civility and humane conduct.”
