PPP Senator Taj Haider has submitted a request to the Senate Secretariat today, urging the convening of an upper house to discuss the Israeli aggression against Palestinians and the loss of innocent lives resulting from it.

“The house must hold a discussion on the Israeli atrocities and aggressive actions against the innocent Palestinians and violation of Geneva Convention and UN Resolution on Palestine, and especially barbaric Israeli airstrikes on Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza hence hundreds of innocents people, patients and hospital staff died, and efforts made by Pakistan government in this regard,” according to the requisition.

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