Pakistan said on Friday that it has to be persuaded by the “backers of Israel” to give up its plans for ethnic cleansing, forced relocation, and settler colonialism against the Palestinian people. During a weekly news briefing, the Foreign Office spokeswoman declared, “As an occupying power, Israel must fulfil its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention and forthwith end the carnage in Gaza.” Speaking through her spokeswoman, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, Pakistan expressed her profound sorrow about the horrific atrocities against the Palestinian people while Israeli soldiers persisted in their “campaign of terror and brutality” in Gaza. She claimed that the worst kinds of collective punishment have been inflicted on the people of Gaza for more than a month.