Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has urged the Ummah to unequivocally reject any attempt to forcibly relocate the Palestinian people, whether from Gaza or the West Bank, as it is ethnic cleansing and a war crime under international law, The Associate Press of Pakistan reports.

“The OIC (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation) must categorically reject any proposal that seeks to eject Palestinians from their own homeland,” Dar said. “No external force has the right to dictate their future to the Palestinians. They must determine their own future through an exercise of self-determination.

“The OIC must stand united against any sinister agenda aimed at altering the demography of the occupied Palestinian territories,” the foreign minister said in a statement at the Extraordinary Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers held in Jeddah.