{"id":17509,"date":"2023-10-24T15:01:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/coas-munir-meets-palestinian-envoy-expresses-concern-over-israels-unabated-violence-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T15:01:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:01:05","slug":"coas-munir-meets-palestinian-envoy-expresses-concern-over-israels-unabated-violence-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/coas-munir-meets-palestinian-envoy-expresses-concern-over-israels-unabated-violence-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"COAS Munir meets Palestinian envoy, expresses concern over Israel\u2019s \u2018unabated violence\u2019 in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Asim Munir on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the \u201cindiscriminate killing\u201d of Palestinians in Gaza and called on the international community to put an end to the \u201cunlawful use of force\u201d by the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<p>He passed these remarks during a meeting with Palestinian Ambassador to Pakistan Ahmed Jawad Rabei at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the military\u2019s media wing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, more than 5,700 people, including over 2,000 children, have been killed in relentless Israeli bombing since October 7. A humanitarian crisis has gripped the besieged enclave, with hospitals shutting down due to a shortage of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release issued today, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the army chief expressed condolences over the loss of Palestinian lives.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1781617\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe COAS expressed grave concern over unabated violence and willful, indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians by the Israeli Defence Forces in the war. Incessant attacks on the civilian population, schools, universities, aid workers, hospitals and the forced exodus of Palestinians from Gaza are manifest crimes against humanity,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n<p>The army chief also reiterated Pakistan\u2019s principled support for an \u201cindependent, viable and contiguous state of Palestine established on the basis of pre-1967 borders with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConflating this war with terrorism would be naive; 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,\u201d the ISPR quoted the COAS as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Munir further stated it was imperative that the international community must be mobilised to put an early end to unfolding human tragedy due to \u201cdisproportionate and unlawful use of force by the IDF\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also called upon the global community to desist from \u201cencouraging them [Israeli forces] to continue perpetrating atrocities in manifest violation of all norms of civility and humane conduct\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Asim Munir on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the \u201cindiscriminate killing\u201d of Palestinians in Gaza and called on the international community to put an end to the \u201cunlawful use of force\u201d by the Israeli military. 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