Attacks undermine international efforts to achieve lasting peace and stability in the region
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Pakistan strongly condemns the Israeli occupation forces’ attacks across Gaza, which have reportedly resulted in several Palestinian civilian deaths, including women and children, and left many more injured.
In a statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOF) said such actions constitute a clear violation of international law, relevant UN resolutions and the recently concluded peace agreement in Sharm El-Sheikh.
These attacks also undermine international efforts to achieve lasting peace and stability in the region.
The Government of Pakistan reiterates its call to the international community to take immediate steps to end Israeli impunity and ceasefire violations and to uphold international human rights and humanitarian law.
Pakistan reaffirms its principled position in favor of the establishment of an independent, sovereign, viable and contiguous State of Palestine, based on pre-June 1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
Read: 22 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza despite ceasefire
Earlier, 22 Palestinians were killed Saturday in a series of Israeli airstrikes that hit homes and a vehicle in several areas of the Gaza Strip, in a fresh violation of the ceasefire that has been in effect since October 10.
Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said in a video statement that women, children and elderly people were among the victims of the attacks, which destroyed entire buildings.
He said five people were killed and others wounded after an Israeli drone strike targeted a civilian vehicle near Abbas Junction in western Gaza City.
In the same city, four Palestinians were killed when an Israeli strike hit a home on al-Labbabidi Street.
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In the central Gaza Strip, Bassal said two Palestinians were killed and others wounded when an Israeli attack targeted a house near the Bilal bin Rabah mosque in western Deir al-Balah.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp, three Palestinians were killed when an Israeli attack hit a home next to Al-Awda Hospital.
Also in Nuseirat, seven Palestinians were killed after an Israeli attack hit a home in Camp 2.
Bassal did not specify where the additional deaths occurred.
Israeli forces also shot and wounded three Palestinians near the al-Bureij camp in central Gaza and Jabalia in the north, medics said.
The Israeli army claimed in a statement that its forces had “eliminated” a gunman after he allegedly crossed the yellow line.
At dawn, Israeli forces also carried out attacks on areas east of al-Bureij and Deir al-Balah, as well as eastern Rafah and Khan Younis in the south, in addition to parts of Tuffah and Shujaiya neighborhoods in eastern Gaza City.
The casualties came as the Israeli army blew up residential buildings and facilities by carrying out airstrikes and detonating booby-trapped vehicles in the eastern parts of Rafah and Khan Younis, which fall under the Israeli-controlled yellow zone in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Similar airstrikes and explosions were reported in Al-Tuffah and Shujaiya neighborhoods, as well as artillery shelling and occasional gunfire from Israeli military vehicles located on the edge of the yellow zone, witnesses said.
On Friday, the Israeli army targeted Palestinian buildings in army-controlled areas of Khan Younis, Gaza City, the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza and the Jabalia refugee camp in the north.
Israel continues to occupy more than 50% of the Gaza Strip under the ceasefire agreement, with the “yellow line” separating areas under army deployment from those inhabited by Palestinians.
Recently, the Israeli army escalated its attacks east of the yellow line, destroying large areas and making nearby zones very dangerous for civilians.
Since October 2023, the Israeli army has killed nearly 70,000 people in Gaza, primarily women and children, injured over 170,800 and reduced the enclave to rubble. The assault stalled under a ceasefire agreement that came into force on 10 October.
