{"id":23189,"date":"2023-11-10T12:44:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T12:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/tragedy-of-epic-proportions-pakistan-urges-unsc-to-call-for-unconditional-ceasefire-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T12:44:56","slug":"tragedy-of-epic-proportions-pakistan-urges-unsc-to-call-for-unconditional-ceasefire-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/tragedy-of-epic-proportions-pakistan-urges-unsc-to-call-for-unconditional-ceasefire-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tragedy of epic proportions\u2019: Pakistan urges UNSC to call for unconditional ceasefire in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Pakistan on Friday expressed deep concern over \u201cheinous crimes\u201d committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to call for an \u201curgent and unconditional ceasefire\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct 7, Hamas launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1779807\">surprise attack<\/a> on Israel from Gaza and killed 1,400 Israelis, according to officials, while also taking more than 200 hostages.<\/p>\n<p>In retaliation, Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1780169\">blockaded<\/a> the strip and launched a brutal assault, which has since killed more than 10,000 Palestinians, mostly children. Thousands of people have also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1787717\/thousands-flee-gazas-north-in-forced-displacement\">forced<\/a> to leave their homes and move toward the south as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1785289\/israel-army-says-engaged-in-fierce-battles-with-hamas-in-gaza\">fierce battles<\/a> between Hamas and Israeli forces are under way in the north.<\/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\/1788059\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>While the death toll mounts and thousands of other civilians remain at risk in Gaza, Israel has repeatedly refused calls for a ceasefire. On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to daily four-hour \u201cmilitary pauses\u201d in the north of the enclave for humanitarian purposes.<\/p>\n<p>In a weekly press briefing today, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahrah Baloch said the people of Gaza had been subjected to the worst forms of collective punishment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsraeli forces are committing crimes against humanity with impunity,\u201d she stated, lamenting Israel\u2019s indiscriminate massacres of defenceless civilians and deliberate attempts to deprive them of food, water, shelter and medical care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use of phosphorous bombs and threats of nuclear holocausts are being made against people under occupation who are being forcibly evicted from their land,\u201d Baloch pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>While calling the situation in Gaza \u201ca tragedy of epic proportions\u201d, she called on the UNSC \u2014 which is expected to meet today to deliberate upon the situation in the Mideast \u2014 to take action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UNSC must act to fulfil its responsibility to uphold peace and call for urgent and unconditional ceasefire, lifting of siege and commencement of rapid unhindered humanitarian assistance,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Abettors of Israel, she continued, must prevail upon it to \u201cabandon plans for settler colonialism, forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an occupying power, Israel must fulfil its obligations under the 4th Geneva Convention and end its carnage in Gaza,\u201d Baloch added.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question, the spokesperson also clarified that Pakistan\u2019s position on Israel was clear. \u201cWe have no relations or economic ties with Israel,\u201d she asserted.<\/p>\n<p>She further stated that caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar will attend an extraordinary session of the Organisation of Islamic Council that will take place on Nov 11 (Saturday) in Saudi Arabia\u2019s capital Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>The summit has been convened \u201cin response to the unprecedented Israeli attacks on Gaza [\u2026], which pose a grave threat to civilians and precipitate a humanitarian crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>PM Kakar, Baloch continued, would depart for Riyadh today along with Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani.<\/p>\n<p>At both meetings, \u201cPakistan would continue to play its role to advance the international consensus and galvanise efforts for an urgent end to Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan on Friday expressed deep concern over \u201cheinous crimes\u201d committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to call for an \u201curgent and unconditional ceasefire\u201d in Gaza. On Oct 7, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza and killed 1,400 Israelis, according to officials, while also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/11\/1012200965d6dfa.png?r=122147","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}