Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani has urged the international community to hold Israel accountable for its war crimes and demanded an immediate end to its “campaign of terror” in Gaza.

Jilani led the Pakistan delegation to the urgent open-ended Ministerial Meeting of the Executive Committee of the OIC held in Jeddah. The meeting was co-convened by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to discuss the crisis in Gaza, according to the Foreign Office.

In a press release afterwards, the FO said Jilani strongly denounced the Israeli aggression and inhumane blockade of Gaza that has resulted in death, destruction and displacement.

“He condemned yesterday’s massacre of innocent civilians in the vicious Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza and underscored that the Israeli occupation forces were in clear violation of international humanitarian and human rights law, and their indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity,” it said.

The FO said Jilani emphasised that Israel must bring an immediate end to its “campaign of terror” with an immediate ceasefire, lifting the siege of Gaza, and rescinding the forced evacuation of Palestinians from their homes. He also underlined the urgency of humanitarian corridors for rapid, secure and unrestricted humanitarian and relief supplies to Gaza.