Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, the prime minister of Pakistan, called the Israeli assault on the Gaza City hospital on Tuesday, which resulted in the deaths of 500 Palestinians, an “indefensible act of inhumanity” and urged the international community to put an end to it.
The bloodiest airstrike since Israel began bombing the occupied territory on October 7 occurred the night before US President Joe Biden was set to come to Israel to help fight Hamas.
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“Declare with strong condemnation the massive civilian casualties caused by the Israeli attack on Al-Ahly Al-Mamadany Hospital in Gaza,” Kakar told X. Since hospitals house the needy, inhumanity shouldn’t happen there. International humanitarian law protects doctors and hospitals.
He said Pakistan “urged the international community to act swiftly to stop the violence and hold those responsible accountable” to “put an end to this indiscriminate targeting.”
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A different Pakistani foreign ministry statement called the attack on a hospital where people were seeking emergency care and shelter “inhumane and indefensible”.
It demanded that “the international community take urgent measures to put an immediate end to the Israeli bombardment and siege of Gaza and the impunity with which Israeli authorities have operated in the last few days.” “The indiscriminate targeting of civilian populations and facilities is a grave violation of international law and constitutes war crimes,” said the news.
The Palestinian Health Ministry’s Ashraf Al-Qudra says hundreds of Palestinians were killed in the Tuesday night hospital attack, and bodies are still being retrieved. The health ministry predicted 500 deaths, but Gaza’s civil defense commander reported 300.
The incident heightened tensions in a region already unstable after the October 7 cross-border Hamas raid on southern Israeli villages, which killed at least 1,300 people.
Before Tuesday’s blast, Gaza health officials reported Israel had bombed Gaza for 11 days since the Oct. 7 raid, killing at least 3,000 Palestinians.
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