Pakistan slams Israeli aggression in Gaza, calls for international protection force to safeguard besieged Palestinians
UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (APP): Pakistan Thursday urged the UN General Assembly to call for a halt to the Israeli aggression in Gaza and demand concrete steps to safeguard the besieged Palestinians, including deployment of an international protection force in the occupied territories.
“We should deploy an international protection force,” Foreign Minister Shah Mahmoud Qureshi told a special session of the 193-member Assembly, pointing out such a force was called for in General Assembly Resolution ES-10/20 and demanded by the Islamic Summit Conference on 18 May 2018.