The Foreign Office has said Pakistan is disappointed at the renewed Israeli bombing of the Palestinian people and reiterated calls for a durable and sustained ceasefire in Gaza.

“The temporary pause offered a crucial respite to the suffering people of Gaza and allowed exchange of prisoners,” FO spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said during a weekly press briefing.

“Pakistan, reiterates its call for a durable and sustained ceasefire to enable supply of extensive and robust humanitarian assistance; urgent medical aid to the injured; and shelter to those who have been displaced as a result of indiscriminate and inhumane bombing campaign by Israeli occupation forces,” she stated.

Baloch also expressed deep concerns at the escalating Israeli aggression in the occupied West Bank and the escalation of hostile acts against the Palestinian population. “We strongly condemn the Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp and acts of violence and repression against the returning prisoners and their families,” she said.

“The international community should take immediate and decisive steps to bring an end to Israel’s campaign of terror against the Palestinian civilians,” she stated.