Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said in a statement on Tuesday that the international community should ensure the implementation of the UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza.
On the other hand, according to AFP, despite the resolution of the United Nations Security Council, there has been no reduction in the intensity of the war imposed by Israel on Gaza. AFP has reported with reference to the Health Department of the Gaza Strip that Israel continued its attacks on Tuesday morning, in which 70 people were killed. Out of this, 13 people were targeted in Rafah city.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli planes have bombarded Rafah on Tuesday morning.
The United Nations Security Council on Monday approved a resolution for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The United States did not participate in the voting in the Security Council, while the other 14 council members voted in favor of the resolution.
Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif welcomed the resolution of the United Nations Security Council for a ceasefire in Gaza and said that the international community should ensure the implementation of the resolution of the Security Council for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. ‘
He said that the ongoing “Zionist oppression and oppression” of innocent Palestinians in Gaza should be permanently stopped. Thousands of women and children have been martyred in Israel’s barbaric attacks.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan said that ‘hospitals and refugee camps were deliberately bombed by Israel in Gaza, which is highly condemnable.
“Pakistan will continue to support its Palestinian brothers and sisters to achieve a Palestinian state based on the pre-June 1967 borders.”
Earlier on Monday night, Pakistan’s Foreign Office welcomed the adoption of an immediate ceasefire resolution in Gaza by the Security Council.
In a statement issued by the Foreign Office, it is said that “Pakistan welcomes the approval of the resolution of the immediate ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan in the United Nations Security Council.”
“We also welcome the call by the Security Council for the free access of humanitarian aid to Gaza, the removal of obstacles in the way of aid and the protection of civilians in the Gaza Strip,” the statement said.
Welcome to Hamas
Hamas, while welcoming the Security Council resolution, has expressed its willingness to negotiate for the release of hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
In a statement, Hamas accused Israel of derailing the latest round of talks hosted by Qatar.
Hamas has said that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his cabinet are solely responsible for the failure of negotiation efforts and the impasse to reach an agreement so far.
The visit of the Israeli delegation to America was cancelled
On the other hand, Israel has canceled the visit of one of its delegations to Washington as a reaction to the United States not vetoing the Security Council resolution.
Israel said in a statement that the resolution harmed both its war effort and efforts to free the hostages, while Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office called it a “clear retreat from the consistent US position.”
Failure to implement ‘inexcusable’
The Security Council resolution also emphasized the “urgent need to expand and strengthen humanitarian access to protect civilians throughout the Gaza Strip and remove all obstacles to the delivery of humanitarian aid on a large scale.” It has reiterated its demand to do.
After the vote, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has demanded the implementation of the resolution. He wrote on social media platform X that the failure would be ‘unforgivable’.
The Security Council just approved a long-awaited resolution on Gaza, demanding an immediate ceasefire, and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.
This resolution must be implemented. Failure would be unforgivable.
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) March 25, 2024
The Security Council has been divided on the issue since the October 7, 2023 attacks and has approved only two of the eight resolutions, both of which were primarily related to the delivery of humanitarian aid to the devastated Gaza Strip.
According to the news agency AFP, the permanent member of the Security Council and Israel After the attacks by Hamas, America, its main supporter, clearly supported the position that Israel has the right to defend itself.
But as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza intensified, the United States Palestinians The organization has reduced support for Israel because of its aggression against Hamas.
Israel’s recent aggression on Gaza It began on October 7, 2023, when 1,160 people were killed in a Hamas attack on Israel.
The health ministry in Gaza put the total death toll at 32,226 on Sunday, the majority of them women and children.
The ministry said 72 people were killed in the early hours of Sunday, including at least 26 in airstrikes on five houses in the southern city of Rafah.
Last Friday, the Security Council voted on a draft presented by the United States that called for an “immediate” ceasefire conditional on the release of prisoners.
China and Russia vetoed the resolution and criticized it for not clearly calling on Israel to end its aggression.
The new text, seen by the AFP news agency on Sunday, calls for an “immediate ceasefire” for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which would pave the way for a “permanent and sustainable ceasefire”.
It also called for the “immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners, as well as the removal of all obstacles to the delivery of large-scale humanitarian aid.”
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A homeless 10-year-old girl in Rafah lamented the pain and uncertainty of her house being destroyed.
“As a little girl, I have the right to live in a safe place like anyone else in the world,” Rama told AFP at the makeshift camp, which is now her home.
‘I used to go to school safely, but now we don’t go to school because of the bombings, and I’m very scared when I go out of my house.’
Informed sources told the news agency AFP that negotiations are ongoing in Qatar to obtain a ceasefire in exchange for the release of prisoners, but the heads of the Israeli and American intelligence agencies involved in the negotiations have now left the Gulf emirate for consultations.
A key point has been Hamas’s position that a temporary cease-fire should result in a permanent Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Israel has rejected.
People search for survivors in the rubble of the Abu Saleh family’s house after an Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on February 5, 2024 (AFP)
The UN body for Palestine said on Sunday that Israel has definitively blocked it from delivering aid to northern Gaza, where famine is most at risk.
“Despite the tragedy before us, the Israeli authorities have informed the United Nations that they will no longer allow food convoys to the north,” the agency’s head, Philip Lazzarini, told X.
‘This is an unacceptable and deliberate obstruction of life-saving aid during a man-made famine.’
Israel did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment on Lazzarini’s statement.
Last week, a UN-backed food security assessment warned that famine could hit northern Gaza by May if urgent intervention is not taken.
UNRWA is ‘the beating heart of humanitarian operations in Gaza,’ Martin Griffiths, head of the UN’s humanitarian liaison office, said on X on Sunday.
“The decision to block its food convoys to the north will only push thousands of people closer to famine,” he added. It should be cancelled.’
On Sunday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an end to the ‘continuing nightmare’ of 2.4 million people in Gaza’s worst-ever offensive.
Israel has accused UNRWA staff members of involvement in the October 7 attack and has described the agency as a ‘shield for Hamas’.
UNRWA director of communications Juliet Toma said Israeli officials on Sunday also rejected a request by the United Nations that al-Shafa hospital in northern Gaza, where fighting has been ongoing for nearly a week, be opened. A team should be sent ‘so that the injured can be evacuated from there.’
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