Pakistan has welcomed the Provisional Measures ordered by the International Court of Justice in Gaza.
The Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in a statement said that Pakistan welcomes the provisional measures ordered today by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), whereby the Court has concluded that, prima facie, it has the jurisdiction to entertain the case against Israel and that South Africa’s claims of genocide are ‘plausible’.
The ICJ has ordered Israel to urgently undertake a series of measures in relation to Palestinians in Gaza to prevent the commission of acts prohibited by the Genocide Convention including: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part and imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
The Spokesperson said the implementation of these provisional measures requires an immediat
e and unconditional ceasefire to bring about an end to the suffering faced by the people of Gaza.
She said Pakistan considers the ICJ’s ruling timely and a significant milestone in the pursuit of justice for the Palestinian people and international accountability of Israel.
Pakistan calls for the full and effective implementation of the ICJ’s decision so that basic human rights, dignity and identity of Palestinian people as a distinct group are upheld and protected, as stipulated by the UN Charter, relevant UN resolutions, and international law.
Source: Radio Pakistan