Former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict is not a war between religions but rather the “occupier’s aggression against the occupied people”.

In a post on X, he said, “It is not a war between Muslims and Jews. Nor Christians and Jews. It is an occupier’s aggression against the occupied people [of Palestine].”

Pointing out that “many Jews support the cause of Palestine like people of other faiths”, the PML-N president asserted that the “brutality of apartheid state of Israel against innocent civilians didn’t start on Oct 7”.

“Palestinians were being killed when there was no Hamas. Palestinians are being killed in West Bank where there is no Hamas,” Shehbaz stated, adding that the “other side is afraid to even allow peaceful march against this ongoing genocide in Gaza”.