Pakistan condemns deadly Israeli attacks on Gaza school

12/8/2024 6:10

        Pakistan on Sunday strongly condemned deadly Israeli airstrikes on a school serving as a shelter for displaced people in Gaza City.
        "Attacking an overcrowded school sheltering displaced persons, particularly when they were performing morning prayers, is a horrific, inhuman and cowardly act," the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
        The indiscriminate targeting of civilian populations and facilities is a grave violation of international humanitarian law and constitutes war crimes, said the statement.
        Israel must be held accountable for these war crimes and genocide in Gaza, it added.
        "We call on the international community, especially the United Nations and backers of Israel, to take immediate steps to bring an end to the Gaza genocide and to protect the people of Gaza," according to the ministry.
        In the early hours of Saturday, Israeli warplanes targeted the Al-Taba'een School in Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City, killing at least 100 Palestinians and injuring dozens more, Palestinian medical and security sources said.