Amid escalating violence in Gaza, Pakistan has called for the intensification of international diplomatic efforts for an immediate ceasefire and revival of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks aimed at addressing root causes of the Middle East conflict.
“Violence begets violence; and peace engenders peace. The relentless bloodshed must be stopped and peace talks initiated,” Ambassador Masood Khan, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the U.N., told the Security Council on Tuesday, while condemning Israeli aggression in Gaza.
Expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people, he described the severe civilian suffering in Gaza, and said that the world could not believe the carnage there could not be stopped by the Security Council, the most powerful nations on earth and the influential regional organizations.
The asymmetry of the fight could not be more clear, but military might would not solve the problem, he said in the course of a debate on the Middle East situation.
