NEWYORK: Pakistan has urged the United Nation’s Security Council to act against ethnic cleansing and carnage in Gaza.
The demand was made by the Pakistan’s Permanent Representative, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad in a statement during the UN Security Council briefing on the Middle East, including the question of Palestine.
The Pakistan’s Permanent Representative said the combined effect of mass killing, displacement, famine, settlements, and destruction of habitable land in Gaza leaves no ambiguity about the fact that Israel is carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing in plain sight.
He asked the UN Security Council not to remain a bystander, adding that every moment of inaction deepens the suffering, multiplies the grief, and tears apart the very fabric of international law.
Asim Iftikhar Ahmad demanded that the UN Security Council must rise to its Charter duty, and act.
The Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN said more than 62,000 Palestinians including 19,000 children, 10,000 women, over 270 journalists, and more than 360 UN aid workers have been killed in Gaza.
He said the UN Security Council must demand an immediate, permanent and unconditional ceasefire across Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
He said the Security Council also demand an immediate and unconditional lifting of all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and its safe and unhindered distribution.
It should also demand the release of all hostages and exchange of Palestinians prisoners.
The UN Security Council must demand halt to Israel’s declared intent to occupy Gaza City and an end to forced displacement, illegal settlement expansion and annexations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
