Pakistan strongly condemns Israeli aggression in Gaza: FO
Eleven Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes on Gaza on Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam on Wednesday said that Pakistan condemns Israeli aggression and supports the international community’s efforts in bringing about a cessation of unilateral Israeli strikes killing Palestinians, including women and children.
In a statement, Foreign Office spokesperson said Pakistan supports the international community’s efforts in bringing about a cessation of unilateral Israeli strikes killing Palestinians, including women and children.
Pakistan has consistently supported the Palestinian cause, specially the two-state solution created on the basis of pre-1967 borders, with Al Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
On Wednesday, eleven Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes on Gaza, hiking the overall death toll to 32 in two days, with more than 150 wounded, medics said.
The deadliest strike took place shortly after midnight when a missile slammed into a house in the northern town of Beit Hanun, killing Hafez Hammad, a senior Islamic Jihad commander, and five of his family members, including two women and two children.
Shortly afterwards, a 30-year-old man was killed in an air strike on Rafah, medics said.
As day broke, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a motorcycle in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, leaving 30-year-old Rafiq al-Kafarne clinically dead and another person severely wounded.
In Mughraqa in central Gaza, medics retrieved the body of 80-year-old Naifeh Farajallah from the rubble of her house damaged in an earlier air strike.
In the same area, an Israel missile killed two men in a field near Nusseirat refugee camp. Medics named them as Abdel Nasser Abu Kweik, 60, and his son Khaled, 31.
Overnight, Israeli warplanes struck 160 targets, raising the overall number of strikes to 430 since the launch of Operation Protective Edge in the early hours of Tuesday.
Since midnight (2100 GMT), at least seven rockets struck Israel, and another eight were shot down by Iron Dome, two of them over the Tel Aviv area, an army spokeswoman said.
Throughout Tuesday, 117 rockets struck Israel, with 45 of them targeting major cities in the centre, among them Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, as well as Hadera, 116 kilometres (72 miles) to the north.
The army confirmed the Hadera strike was the furthest that a rocket fire from Gaza had ever reached.
Another 45 missiles were shot down by the Iron Dome anti-missile system.
On Tuesday, 21 Palestinians were killed, including 17 in strikes on Gaza, as well as four Hamas militants who were shot dead after infiltrating southern Israel by sea.
