Islamabad: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir, who is on an official visit to the US, visited Headquarters Central Command at Tampa Bay...
After returning from the Palestinian region, the UN children’s agency spokesperson declared that Gaza is “the most dangerous place in the world” for a child, expressing his outrage at the situation there, according to AFP. After spending over two weeks in Gaza, Unicef spokesperson James Elder addressed a press conference, “I’m furious that those with power shrug at the humanitarian nightmares unleashed on a million children.” The Israeli army is still bombarding the Gaza Strip, and he mentioned youngsters who had undergone amputations and were subsequently “killed in those hospitals.” According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), more than 60% of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed or severely damaged.
Israel strikes a large portion of the Gaza Strip, killing families in their homes, as Washington dispatched an envoy to urge its ally to increase safety precautions against civilian losses in its conflict with Hamas militants. With no end in sight, the more than two-month-old battle is still raging and generating a humanitarian crisis. In Rafah, a densely populated area on the southern border of Gaza, people sobbed in a mortuary next to bodies covered in bloody shrouds. Locals grimly combed through the debris of the Ashour and Abu Dhbaa families’ nearby homes, where 26 people, according to Gaza health officials, had perished. Since October 7, Israel has dropped 29,000 air-to-ground weapons on Gaza, of which up to 45% have been unguided “dumb bombs”.
During the UN special rapporteur’s interview with Al Jazeera, she said that the number of women and children killed by Israeli bombing in Gaza “has surpassed anything we have seen in recent conflicts.” The interview included violence against women and girls. Those working in Gaza, she told Al Jazeera, have “run out of words to describe the unspeakable level of suffering and horrors.” According to her, living as a Palestinian woman or child has essentially meant losing all sense of humanity, safety, dignity, or other special considerations that are usually given to them in times of peace or conflict. Over 16,000 people are reported to have perished in Gaza in just two months, with 115 children dying on average each day.
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, the spokeswoman for the Foreign Office, has requested the Afghan government to turn over to Pakistan the terrorist leadership, particularly that of the TTP, which is engaged in terrorist activities within Pakistan. She stated that Pakistan will take legal action against them in a Wednesday interview with SUNO FM. We have enough proof against them, she replied. According to the spokeswoman, the foreign secretary strongly denounced the latest tragic attack in Dera Ismail Khan to the Afghan Charge D’Affaires yesterday. According to her, the Foreign Secretary made a demand that the Afghan government launch an inquiry, condemn this act at the highest level, and take decisive measures against those who are responsible.
The governor of Madinah Munawarah, Prince Faisal bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, received the civic honour Hilal-i-Pakistan on Wednesday from the Pakistani government. Prince Faisal has received this award in appreciation of his exceptional services to Pakistan. Ahmad Farooq, Pakistan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, gave Prince Faisal the honour during a ceremony held at the Governor’s Office in Madinah. Speaking at the event, Ambassador Ahmad stated that the award was a testament to the close ties of brotherhood that exist between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as well as their ongoing collaboration in areas of shared interest. He claimed that the Saudi royal family and the guardians of the holy mosques were highly revered by the people of Pakistan.
Palestinians in Gaza, according to the head of UNRWA, were begging for an end to this “hell on earth.” “Deepening tragedy, endless, back in Gaza.” People require everything, are found everywhere, and live on the streets. “They beg for protection and for this hell on earth to end,” Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X. He went on, “Our colleagues are asked to do the impossible in an impossible situation.” Al Jazeera reported that the Qassam Brigades, the armed branch of Hamas, claims to have used anti-armour and mortars to target seven military vehicles in the Shujaiya district of Gaza City.
Gaza: 22-year-old Alia Kassan, a resident of Gaza, has said the continuous shelling that has been going on for three months has made her accustomed to...
In the assault that has left the beleaguered enclave in ruins and taken thousands of Palestinian lives, the Palestinian resistance group Hamas engaged in combat with invading Israeli forces on Friday in and around Gaza’s main cities. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that over 17,000 people have died in Gaza, the majority of them women and children. Large swathes of the city have been left to a wasteland of demolished and bullet-scarred structures. The health ministry said early on Friday that there had been 40 more deaths in attacks close to Gaza City and “dozens” more in Khan Yunis and Jabalia.
Pakistan applauds the UN Secretary-General’s decision to use Article-99 of the UN Charter to draw the UN Security Council’s attention to the grave security and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, the spokesperson for the Foreign Office, stated during her weekly media conference in Islamabad on Thursday that the Secretary General’s decision is indicative of his moral evaluation of the dire circumstances in Gaza. According to the Spokesperson, Pakistan vehemently and unambiguously denounces Israel’s ongoing use of force as well as its indiscriminate attacks on civilians, infrastructure, and facilities, which constitute egregious violations of international humanitarian law. As the Secretary-General emphasised in his letter to the UN Security Council President, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch stated that “civilians throughout Gaza face grave danger.”
