Pakistan on Monday urged the United Nations Security Council to fulfill its responsibility to uphold peace and call for an urgent and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza amid Israeli bombing.

“Pakistan is deeply concerned about the heinous crimes being committed against the Palestinian people as the Israeli forces continue with their campaign of terror and brutality in Gaza,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said on Friday.

Baloch said that the people of Gaza have been subjected to the worst form of collective punishment for over a month.

“Israeli forces committed crimes against humanity with impunity with indiscriminate massacre of defenseless civilians and deliberately deprived them of food, water, shelter, and medical care,” she added.

The spokesperson also mentioned the use of phosphorus bombs and threats of nuclear holocaust being made against a people under occupation who are being forcibly evicted from their land.

“As a tragedy of epic proportion unfolds in Gaza, the UN Security Council must act to fulfill its responsibility to uphold peace and call for an urgent and unconditional ceasefire, lifting of the siege and commencement of rapid and unhindered humanitarian assistance,” she said.

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Baloch also called for the backers of Israel to prevail upon it to abandon its plans for settler colonialism, forced displacement, and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

Israel being the occupying power, Israel must fulfill its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention and end the carnage in Gaza, she said.

“Pakistan welcomes the forthcoming extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Countries which is convened in response to the Israeli attacks on Gaza posing a great threat to the civilians,” Baloch added.