ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday dispatched another consignment of relief goods for the people in Gaza, which has been constantly under attack by the Israeli military for the last one month.
This is the second aid consignment sent by Pakistan for the besieged people of Gaza since Israel started bombing the territory following Hamas attacks on October 7.
A month of Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardment have killed more than 10,000 Palestinians, including 4,000 children, leading to severe shortages of food, fuel and medicines.
Pakistan’s caretaker foreign minister, Jalil Abbas Jilani, along with the Palestinian ambassador and other officials dispatched the aid consignment for Gaza from Islamabad.
“On Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar’s directives, the National Disaster Management Authority is dispatching the second aid consignment on humanitarian grounds,” Jilani said in a media talk.
“These are approximately 90 tons of relief goods, including nearly 40 tons of ration bags, medicines.”
Jilani said the consignment was a “token of solidarity” with the Palestinian brothers and sisters, who had been facing “tyranny” for the last several years.
Pakistan has repeatedly called for a cease-fire in the territory to avoid further civilian deaths and called out the international community for its “double” standards on Israel and Palestine.
The Pakistani foreign minister said his country was aggrieved over the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza.
“We wish for the Palestinians to get their due right at the earliest, that right under which lies an independent Palestinian state,” he said.
“We have always stood by the people of Palestine and we will continue to stand by them in future.”
Pakistan does not recognize the state of Israel and calls for an independent Palestinian state based on “internationally agreed parameters” and the pre-1967 borders with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
