LAHORE: Showing solidarity with the Palestinians, various politicians have urged the Ummah to stand by the people suffering at the hands of Zionist Israeli forces for the last over seven decades.

In a statement on Monday, Punjab Assembly Speaker Sibtain Khan said Israel had been oppressing the unarmed population of Palestine for the many decades and tired of the tyranny of the Zionist state, the Palestinians launched a counter-attack on the occupying forces for the first time in decades. He said that all nations, particularly the Muslim states, must support the Palestinians fighting against oppression. He asked the United Nations to discharge its responsibility of establishing peace in the Middle East by implementing its resolutions on the dispute.

The Haqooq-i-Khalq Party has condemned the incessant onslaught of Israel on innocent Palestinians and terming the resistance by the victims as terrorist activity.

Showing solidarity with the innocent Palestinians, party president Farooq Tariq and general secretary Ammar Ali Jan also condemned the support and provision of resources by the West, particularly the USA, to the Zionist state for further crushing the already oppressed Palestinians. They demanded an immediate ceasefire, putting an end to strikes on Gaza and restoring water, food, power and other resources to it. They also demanded withdrawal of Israeli forces from the areas it occupied in 1967.

Tehreek-i-Istaqlal President Rehmat Khan Wardag said the Palestinians had been living a life of prisoners in their own homeland for decades while their mass murder was also continuing despite the establishment of a semi-autonomous government in Gaza and West Bank. He demanded that the Ummah and all other nations should support the cause of Palestinians, put pressure on Israel to end its tyrannical practices against the unarmed civilian population and implement the two-state formula for an effective and durable peace in the Middle East.

Published in Dawn, October 10th, 2023