Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar has expressed deep concern over Israel’s ongoing brutal military onslaught against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, Radio Pakistan reports.

Addressing the 15th Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in The Gambia today, Dar urged its member states to work together for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and uninterrupted humanitarian assistance to the besieged Palestinians.

The deputy premier also expressed Pakistan’s support for Palestine’s admission as a full member of the United Nations, resumption of the peace process for the realisation of the two-state solution and establishment of a viable, contiguous and sovereign State of Palestine on the basis of pre-1967 borders.