Published October 26,2023
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Hundreds of ladies and kids demonstrated Thursday in Karachi in assist of Palestinians as such protests continued throughout Pakistan.
Carrying banners and placards inscribed with pro-Palestine and anti-Israel slogans, ladies, many carrying kids, gathered within the central district of the port metropolis for the rally organized by Jamaat-e-Islami, the mainstream religiopolitical get together.
In addition, greater than 2,000 college students attended a rally at Karachi University, one of many nation’s largest institutes of upper studying, to denounce what they mentioned is “Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.”
Carrying a 200-foot (61-meter) lengthy Palestinian flag, female and male college students, together with their academics, marched on the campus.
Acting Vice-Chancellor Hassan Feroz, and Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi chief, Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman, attended the rally, the second at a campus since Oct.7, when the Palestine resistance group, Hamas, launched a shock assault towards Israel.
“This is the joint responsibility of the international community to stop Israeli aggression against unarmed civilians, ” Feroz advised demonstrators.
“It’s not war. it’s massacre,” he mentioned.
Pakistan has seen large protests since Oct. 7 with the president and caretaker prime minister expressing solidarity with Palestinians and denouncing actions by Israel.
President Arif Alvi final week visited the Palestinian Embassy in Islamabad to reiterate Pakistan’s assist for Palestinians.
PAKISTAN URGES ‘ISRAELI BACKERS’ TO GET CEASE-FIRE
Pakistan urged the “backers of Israel” on Thursday to play a task in bringing an finish to the Israeli aggression and take efficient steps to raise the siege of Gaza.
They additionally need them to “support a sustainable pipeline of life-saving humanitarian assistance, including water, fuel, food, and medicines for the besieged people of Gaza,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mumtaz Zehra Baloch mentioned at a news convention in Islamabad.
The worldwide neighborhood should additionally be sure that the violence and the bombing marketing campaign don’t unfold and engulf your entire Middle East, she mentioned.
She regretted that regardless of the “rising death toll, flagrant violations of international humanitarian law, war crimes and calls for ethnic cleansing,” the UN Security Council has did not demand a cease-fire and put an finish to the carnage in Gaza.
Islamabad reiterated its “full and unequivocal” assist for Palestinians in Gaza “who are at the receiving end of an inhumane campaign of collective punishment by the Israeli occupation forces.”
The battle in Gaza started when Hamas, initiated Operation Al-Aqsa Flood — a multi-pronged shock assault on Oct. 7 that included a barrage of rocket launches and infiltrations into Israel by land, sea and air.
Hamas group mentioned the incursion was in retaliation for the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and rising violence by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians.
The Israeli navy then launched a relentless bombardment of Hamas targets within the Gaza Strip.
More than 8,400 folks have been killed within the battle, together with at the very least 7,028 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis.
Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been working out of meals, water, medication, and gasoline, and support convoys allowed into Gaza have carried solely a fraction of what’s wanted.
Source: www.anews.com.tr